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Proposing that Lemmy or Kbin could substitute for Reddit while not acknowledging that lack of search makes it impossible to find the appropriate groups in a decentralized maze of servers is very on-brand for the Mastodon crowd.
#search #reddit #federated
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[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I'll bite.

It's like the early internet, you have to move around and eventually you'll find what you are looking for. Follow that link! Search engines were useful for that back in the day.

I bet we'll have similar services even if we do not have them just yet.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As if Reddit search ever worked.

[–] EthicalAI 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. No one uses reddit search. There are open source search engines we could add to the lemmy code I bet for better results.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[–] 2muchcaffeine4u@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure why Mastodon posts always end up looking so bad on Lemmy. The title is always gored and the post always has hashtags that do nothing in Lemmy.

[–] hybridhavoc 4 points 1 year ago

Mostly because the people writing them don't understand how their post will be parsed, and the post lives simultaneously on Lemmy / Kbin and Mastodon.

Lemmy just takes the first paragraph from the post as the title. So if the poster knows that, they can format it like:

Title title title

Body of post

[–] thebestlettuce@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it uses the tweet content as both the post title and body when Lemmy tries to display masto tweets. Maybe the title should just be "Mastodon post from @username" tbh

[–] aka_oscar 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds like a good idea. Would be interesting if lemmy would also be able to recognize hashtags at the end of the post and hide it under a Show Hashtags button

[–] ekjju@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

oh no, so being federated with mastodon means we have to suffer getting those kinds of hot takes on our timeline?

[–] bear_delune 3 points 1 year ago

People are so impatient! We’re at the start of a potential paradigm shift; these things take time and need time to develop.

Everyone’s so desperate for federated services to be drop in replacements. Let them be different, let them be better

[–] CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me (who searched for the majority of communities I'm currently subscribed to): We don't have what now?

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@osma if kbin doesn't have a group you're looking for, then make it on kbin. maybe it's just my newbie kbinaut perspective but kbin groups come first, federation second.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy has keyword based search lol

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Open the menu, select Communities, set the filter to All, then type in words that you like.

[–] osma@mas.to 1 points 1 year ago

Also, extremely cute to think that lists (no one.knowd about) are a substitute for effective search. How 1994 Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle.

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