A great use for reddit is the ability to search posts and opinions about any niche topic. Will that be possible with Lemmy as it grows? Will I be able to Google “instant rice Lemmy” and get a comprehensive tier list of each brand?

I imagine search engines will have trouble with all the different instances(?). EDIT: Especially with instances that don’t have Lemmy in their name, I don’t think search engines would return them for Lemmy searches?

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      I wish there was a way to get an entire Reddit archive over here. Realistically I’m still going to have to search Reddit because it has 10+ years of answers to obscure questions.

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        Minds more intelligent than mine are probably already at work on these problems. I’ve seen multiple discussion of people saying they are designing and working on solutions. It may take some time to see results, though.

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          Google could prevent lemmy pages from showing up in the results for example.

          Or they could adapt the protocol, make their own slightly tweaked version of it and let it die, which apparently often also kills the original protocol due to newly introduced compatibility issues, etc.

          Not sure about the second part, I read about it here somewhere where they mentioned an example of that happening as well but I can’t find it anymore.

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          Like xmpp

          Make a giant instance, get all the content there by pumping users and making cool shit, slowly customize your instance and extend the protocol with features so that ours become incompatible in annoying ways

          Add wikis, overhaul user profiles, achievements, posting to your own profile, games, whatever, then get tired of supporting the fediverse interface and shut off the API

          You instantly can’t read 95% of your subscribed /f/s