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
@fediverse
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.
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
oh no, so being federated with mastodon means we have to suffer getting those kinds of hot takes on our timeline?
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. Just because they’re technically cross compatible doesn’t mean they should be.
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
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
Me (who searched for the majority of communities I’m currently subscribed to): We don’t have what now?
@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.
Lemmy has keyword based search lol
Open the menu, select Communities, set the filter to All, then type in words that you like.
I wonder if the reason they thought there was no search because they’re posting from Mastodon 🤷♀️
The lack of searchability makes it more like Reddit, not less. Reddit’s search was notoriously terrible.
As if Reddit search ever worked.
Exactly. No one uses reddit search. There are open source search engines we could add to the lemmy code I bet for better results.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Sure it’s not a 100% drop-in replacement for reddit yet, but it’s still very early days. It’ll get there
Also, extremely cute to think that lists (no one.knows about) are a substitute for effective search. How 1994 Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle.
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