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
oh no, so being federated with mastodon means we have to suffer getting those kinds of hot takes on our timeline?
Lemmy has keyword based search lol
Open the menu, select Communities, set the filter to All, then type in words that you like.
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’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.
