I like that Lemmy can post on other instances (communities on other instances), but thinking about it, would that not present a potential issue with centralizing information about a topic on one instance?

I know it’s kind of similar to having themed Mastodon instances (and I also don’t really understand those), but it seems like a potential issue?

I know multiple instances can have the same communities, but that then seems like fracturing the conversation?

Could this just be due to my limited knowledge/use of the fediverse?

  • Fracture
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    2 years ago

    What would be the best way to search across lemmy instances. When searching through duckduckgo, I often add “site:reddit.com” because the otherwise the search results are garbage. But using a domain name wouldn’t work with lemmy since each instance has it’s own domain.

    • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOP
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      2 years ago

      I’m wondering if search indexers like DDG won’t try to index various parts of the fediverse. I’m not entirely sure how that would work (probably not very well).

      For Lemmy specifically, there is a site (I don’t have the link right now), that holds a list of all of the communities on the published instance list. But instances have to manually be added to that list.