A great use for reddit is the ability to search posts and opinions about any niche topic. Will that be possible with Lemmy as it grows? Will I be able to Google “instant rice Lemmy” and get a comprehensive tier list of each brand?
I imagine search engines will have trouble with all the different instances(?). EDIT: Especially with instances that don’t have Lemmy in their name, I don’t think search engines would return them for Lemmy searches?
Cool rage but you dismissing search indexing is kinda hilarious. It’s not going away and it’s what makes the web. Would you rather have 3 big websites instead of indexed web?
That’s what we already have, I’d you need to find stuff by doing site specific googles, both google & that site have failed.
The web is dead, it’s been dead for a while, now is the time to build something new in it’s wake that rather than depending on closed source algorithms, indexing 3 big websites, we could just search the 3 big websites directly.
That’s definitely not what we have.
I disagree. I’m not sure why you say that. I Google stuff as a job and it’s certainly not just the big 3 websites. I personally rely on selfhosted searxng.
What the world needs is a web indexer/search engine that operates similar to wikipedia. A non-profit that can focus on providing a useful service for the public good that isn’t driven by profit motives.
I disagree. I have a very successful technical blog and there’s a big community outside from the big websites that produce awesome content.
Though, you do have a point that it could be better but we’re all working on it - that’s why we’re here on Lemmy! :)