op: searches "lemmy"
few seconds later: "wow, al results are about lemmy"
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
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LET ME HAVE THIS!
Lmao what did you really type?
Whostosay
This used to be not the case.
Tbh I still get mostly motorhead
Can't complain.
I mean it's interesting that it has surpassed Kilmister as the top result in some regions/contexts and is definitely more numerous.
Neat
I wonder how Google (and the search engines that depend on Google) decide which person/entity to feature in the snippet. At what point would Lemmy the software replace Lemmy the person?
For example, "Swift" brings up the financial organization, while "Taylor" brings up Taylor Swift
Mmmm.. hope.
You're still using google? Ew. People like you make me lose hope.
;P
Eh, ill go there if duckduck doesnt find what im looking for.
Duckduck is just a wrapper for bing (and gives microsoft trackers a free pass)
Startpage is a similar thing that uses google. Considering how hated bing is believe Duck only got more popular because of privacy marketing.
The safest alternative is running your own searxng client, it still relies on bing and google but at least you can verify that its actually stopping all trackers.
How about i just wont search.
Honestly though, I barely do. Maybe for work, but I dont think setting up my own will be as helpful.
I regret not including this as an option now but I contemplated adding this part:
The majority of our (subjective-my) internet nowadays follows patterns of the same places, new places are often found on the old places.
Most of my sites are bookmarked trusted websites. (Increasingly more self hosted also) wikipedia for facts, wolfram alpha for math, sites i have an account on.
Part of the crux is when is the last time you googled in the hope to find a new website you don’t already know yet? Even ads direct you using QR.
I find i rarely need a search engine anymore and when often when i do i can’t find anything anyway. Stuff has gotten so buried under search engine optimisation you are better of using ai for a first responds to obtain the terminology to search for how wrong ai got it then by searching for a question directly.
I am hoping to try this thing soon and if its good it might replace 90% of my browser activity. -> https://github.com/glanceapp/glance
And the reason DDG is garbage now is because Microsoft raised the price of bing calls.
So, do we have to explain how Google search results work?
All my results are sexy anime tgirl yuri comics, looking good to me?
That's how it is for everyone, right???
Anyone with any taste!
If you point me toward the wiki, I'll read it, but am curious how you learned
Actually how does Lemmy and the Fediverse even work for search engines with regard to duplication? Do each instance only show posts from communities which are moderated on the instance, and dynamically show a robots.txt to ignore federated communities? Or since posts federate, does each instance a post federates to show up in search results? I could see the latter being really annoying to someone who doesn't understand what's going on, and keeps getting results for the same exact post, although would be nice to have a replacement for adding site:reddit.com to some search results.