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
    4·
    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.

          • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            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.