NOTE: the late “Lemmy” is a beloved Brit* musician from an enjoyable rock band, perhaps with some Led Zep-type analogues? (sorry, I just didn’t know him very well; kinda before my time)
Okay, what I’m trying to explain here is how we search for things and how we find them, particularly when we include the magical word: “Lemmy” in our searches.
For example-- I can just half-awake, lazily type something like “reddit” + search term, and BOOM! Robert’s your avuncular figure.**
Now, by comparison, hopping on an instance, so far I’ve found that searches within the Lemmysphere are remarkably strong. (well, at least for lemm.ee; I love my instance)
Unfortunately, that’s not how most people search and find us, which more typically involves Google, etc.
Hence my question, laddies & lassies-- i.e. is there anything we can do to influence how this search-stuff works…?
* see, I always find a way to relate things back to Europe, haha
** like “there you go,” ie. “Bob’s your uncle,” a classic Brit pub-phrase
Reddit is all on one domain, so a search on that is a fairly simple thing to do. Lemmy is a lot of different inter-connected sites, most of which don’t even contain “Lemmy” in their name, making it a much more difficult ask.
And to make matters worse, because all of those domains have a good chunk of nearly identical content, they end up appearing like SEO content farm spam to the algorithm. It’s like all those sites that used to clone Stack Overflow back in the day.
Kagi (a paid search engine) has a “fediverse forums” filter option.
And the search actually returns relevant results, not a bunch of ads. If you have used free search your whole life, it kind of sucks to pay for it, but I would rather pay for searching than be a product people pay for every time I search. It doesn’t take much thought to see why being the product will always lead to a worse search platform.
Honestly, it shouldn’t cost that much for free search engines to build in — shouldn’t add a lot of compute load or anything. I expect that what Kagi did was to run a spider to build a list of hostnames and then to basically do a site search on a huge number of sites. If there’s demand, other search engines could provide similar functionality.
Motörhead ≠ Led Zeppelin
I know I know, but I was half-toasted and body shutting down due to the usual CFS/ME at the time. I had to take a stab in some direction, haha.
Give me a better analogy…?
Yikes! What happens if you chug coffee? Do you feel anything? Maybe tired and wired? What about amphetamines?
They’re probably more similar to early Ozzy musically, but Lemmy is a sound of his own.
Okkkkkaaaaaaaayyy?
Just curious about the condition.
Oh, sorry. My bad.
I have CFS/ME, or myalgic enchephalomyletus (sp?), also called “chronic fatigue syndrome,” pretty much a working umbrella-term for those with unexplainable, chronic fatigue.
Can I ask what happens if you drink a bunch of coffee or take other stimulants?
Um, I could go on for days about this curséd disease, but may I ask you where your interest is coming from?
Who you are and all that, mate…?
