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?

  • hardypart@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    but annoying to assume that only Google is relevant.

    Google’s market share is around 92%. Of course it’s the most relevant thing. Other search engines only exist for 10% of the users.

    • Ben@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You know that Google and Reddit own the internet - so just go there, and make sure you’re using a Chromium based browser because that’s the market share too.

      That way, you can work to create a Fediverse whilst Google and friends succeed in closing all the loops to take total control of your internet and browser.

      Other people will say they ‘search’.

      Part of the marketing strategy is to make Microsoft, Google, Reddit etc the default.

      Why reinforce it?

      The issue is becoming accessible to Search.

      Not specifically to become accessible to Google.

      Here’s one example of something I found OUTSIDE the fediverse via search.

      I use SearXNG, but I remember that one came via Qwant search and NOT via Google.

      Language IS very important here, and it’s important to avoid always using ‘default’ branded options which are not and should never be considered the default.