• kakes@sh.itjust.works
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      Makes me sad to think that this will soon be about as useful as “site:facebook.com” with the way Reddit is going.

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      7 months ago

      Do you think it will ever be possible to do that for all the Lemmy instances?

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        Pretty much all content gets federated to lemmy.world so if you use site:lemmy.world that’ll do it.

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        Kagi.com has a lens for the fediverse. A lens is basically a scope within which performing the search.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        Nah. The best option we have imo is a service that indexes everything on one site so traditional search engines can find it. That requires someone to build it, and AFAIK that’s hasn’t happened.

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          That or the search engines themselves implement their own fediverse instances just for the purposes of indexing results. At a certain point if the platform becomes relevant enough I think we could see that happen.

          I think they’d probably prefer instances that they have control over to reduce the avenues for a third party to manipulate the results. Otherwise they have to trust whoever runs the search instances.

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Lemmy’s built-in search barely works as it is, so unless some drastic changes happen it’s resounding no.

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          This is how we found anything on reddit for most of its useful life. Its search was always garbage so we relied on Google to come up with usable results.

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          It’s miles better than reddit’s search has ever been.