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?

  • @Secret300
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    41 year ago

    How would they? It’s all decentralized

    • silly goose meekah
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      51 year ago

      Google could prevent lemmy pages from showing up in the results for example.

      Or they could adapt the protocol, make their own slightly tweaked version of it and let it die, which apparently often also kills the original protocol due to newly introduced compatibility issues, etc.

      Not sure about the second part, I read about it here somewhere where they mentioned an example of that happening as well but I can’t find it anymore.

      • @Secret300
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        11 year ago

        Good read, I had no idea about those past incidents. I always herd people say “embrace, extend, and extinguish” but I never knew the history of it. After finishing it I’m just worried now, ahah. I need to look into xmpp because it just sounds like matrix to me and if that’s the case why did matrix get created in the first place

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Like xmpp

      Make a giant instance, get all the content there by pumping users and making cool shit, slowly customize your instance and extend the protocol with features so that ours become incompatible in annoying ways

      Add wikis, overhaul user profiles, achievements, posting to your own profile, games, whatever, then get tired of supporting the fediverse interface and shut off the API

      You instantly can’t read 95% of your subscribed /f/s