In the past, when searching on a search engine, I would use “site:reddit.com” to narrow down my results. However, with Lemmy having different instances that may contain varying content, I found myself unsure of how to approach searching effectively. While the Lemmy search feature is useful at times, I sometimes miss the convenience of using a dedicated search engine. To address this, I developed a script that formats the most popular instances and allows me to search within them. Nevertheless, I wonder if there is a more convenient method for accomplishing this task. If anyone has any suggestions or tips, I would greatly appreciate it.

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    ActivityPub doesn’t have a flood-fill model like NNTP, though. Until instance A has a user that’s subscribed to a community on instance B, instance A doesn’t know about that community and maybe not even that instance.

    • InternetPirate@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s why the instance needs to be well-populated, so there are more chances of the content being replicated. However, the more users there are, the more likely someone gets annoyed and decides to defederate from them.

      • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        For the first several years of this service existing, expect a lot of friction as people who run instances figure out how to accomplish the goals that brought them to this service. That’s normal. If it seems odd, go look at the history of IRC!

          • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m not sure if there’s a definitive history, but the Wikipedia articles on various IRC networks are a start, e.g. EFNet, DALnet, etc. The latter was the first IRC network to introduce network-wide authentication, for instance, which is a feature folks have been talking about here too.