One of the most unforgivable things about reddit is how pathetic the search engine is, considering the amount of free, top notch information is captured there and you need google +reddit to get at it, what can we do to make federated alternatives self searchable ?

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[โ€“] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Thankyou for applying soilid thought. What there would you consider actionable ? As in could likely be coded (for free)

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    Any of that could be done; there's some parts that are more challenging but there are certainly harder things that have been solved by open-source software. I know almost nothing about how Lemmy's innards are built though, so I couldn't hazard a guess as to how much effort any of it would take. Some of it could possibly be achieved through separate services that you could host alongside a Lemmy instance, or entirely on their own, while other parts would really work best as features within Lemmy's own codebase.

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