• 200ok@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

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

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      9 months ago

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

    • sudneo@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      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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      9 months ago

      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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      9 months ago

      Lemmy’s built-in search barely works as it is, so unless some drastic changes happen it’s resounding no.

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        9 months ago

        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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        9 months ago

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