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Is Lemmy search-engine unfriendly? (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by carbotect@vlemmy.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Any post and community could be accessed through a theoretically limitless amount of instances, which also means a theoretically limitless amount of URLs.

Will this hinder Lemmy from ever coming into the mainstream? If I type any topic in Google, I will get a reddit thread that deals with that. Can something like that ever happen for Lemmy?

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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

This is in fact my biggest worry of Lemmy's future. People need to be able to search for stuff and I currently don't see how.

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm doing tests in the next couple days. But I'm trying to build a search engine specifically for Lemmy.

It should in theory work similar-ish to Google / Bing.
You can filter by instance, community or author.
it only indexes Lemmy posts and it won't keep duplicates.
It'll also open any link you find in your instance.
You'll be able to self host it and point it to any instance you want as well.

I'm hoping I can open it to the public in a week or so.

[–] OctoFloofy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Would it be possible to also integrate kbin?

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