I wish Lemmy were searchable better. The search function actually works decently well, but it's not on the same level of actual search engines, it doesn't seem to look for related/similar terms and also relevancy doesn't seem right.
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I do occasionally find Lemmy in web search results. The platform is not that big (or old), but as long as it sticks around then eventually searchability will improve.
Kagi has a fediverse search option, kinda nifty, wish it wasn't an either/or situation tho
Hi, I'm new here. Because of the bullshit with Reddit. Greetings fellow Lemmy people.
Welcome! Genuine advice for a newcomer: look around, figure out what instances you like, and shift away from lemmy.world to an instance that requires a sign-up request and which comports with your values. There is an account migration feature to make this as easy as possible.
It's different to what people are used to, but in my experience a huge number of the worst people migrating from reddit went straight to one of the open instances. A lot of them were banned over there for quite legitimate reasons.
They know that they can't operate their own asshole instances for long because they'll get defederated, and they don't want to deal with being known to an admin who has actual principles, so open sign up is their thing, and those instances are filling up with them.
Honestly I would like to see a feature that flags if a user's instance has open sign up.
It's getting to the point that if someone is still on an open instance, they're a little sus to me. It's easier to trust people who come from instances whose policies I agree with.
I mean I joined lemmy.world in the migration from Reddit and haven't really seen any problems with being here. I tried joining one of the ones that needed a sign up request when I first switched to Lemmy but I didn't want to have to deal with waiting to use Lemmy. I haven't really noticed any problems being on lemmy.world and personally I don't even look at what instances people are from. I just treat it like reddit, we're all using Lemmy at the end of the day.
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Bro... What?!? I've only been here a day and I have no clue what any of that means lol
Lemmy isn’t one service like Reddit. It’s a piece of software where anybody can run their own lemmy instance. Lemmy.world is the most popular, but there are many others. And those choosing to run an instance can “federate” with other instances, which means as a user you can see posts and comments from the other instance even though you are logged into the one you have an account on.
So the commenter is recommending you look at posts or comments from users on other instances that have more stringent sign up policies, and migrate your account there. Since your account is new, you likely don’t need to spend the effort on migrating your account and instead can just set up an account on another instance/server.
But it’s also fine to stay on lemmy.world. Just be respectful, voice your opinions like you would in person with other humans, and you’ll be fine. And if you’re just here for the memes, that’s ok too! Enjoy them! And welcome to lemmy.
Hey, thanks for the detailed explanation! That certainly helps, but it'll probably take me a while to fully get it. I signed up using voyager and it didn't tell me anything like that. I'm sure it'll make more sense as I get used to it. So can I not see all posts from other instances?
Yeah, there are many instances, and many that have purposefully been defederated by lemmy.world. Often for good reason (CSAM, an abundance of spam accounts, violent or hatful rhetoric, etc). But generally lemmy.world and its federated instances are pretty great.
Ok, sounds like I'll just stick with .world for a while until I get my "sea legs"
I think this this guy is going to end up on dbzer0 once he gets his sea legs. Of note the piracy communities over there will be some of the few things you can't access from .world.
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You can see posts from every instance that your instance has federated with. For example, I, on toast.ooo, can see posts on lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com, and sh.itjust.works because my instance federates with them.
You can't see posts from instances that your instance has defederated with, though, nor can you see posts from instances that have defederated with yours. Think of it like cutting one of those thick undersea cables that connect the internet across continents.
There's a lot to consider when picking an instance; lemmy.world is a good default, so that's probably why Voyager directed you to it, but don't be afraid to switch to another instance of you think it'll serve you better!
Thanks! You all have been very helpful in my understanding of the Lemmy world!
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The others gave you a decent rundown.
I'm certainly not meaning to imply that you did anything wrong signing up with .world, it's just somethjng to be aware of. This is actually the first time I've made this suggestion, I honestly don't know how most people feel about this, so actually maybe it was a bit much to dump on a newcomer. If so I apologise.
One thing I forgot about was that being on .world means you do miss out on a lot of piracy related stuff if you're into that.
Also though, you can read about a given instance and its policies and values when you visit it. That often says a lot about the kinds of people you'll meet there.
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Bing it is then. I hate Microsoft with the intensity of thousand suns but bing is now my jam as long as this lasts.
Try duckduckgo
Bing by any other name is still bing.
At best this is as intelligent as saying Google Maps is YouTube by another name because they're both on Google servers. Even that would be smarter to say actually, because Google Maps and YouTube are owned by the same company.
When bing goes down so does duckduckgo but somehow your apples to oranges argument is somehow comparative to you.
They share hosting servers, that doesn't make them the same service. When the power goes out do you think you and your neighbors live in the same house?
Just keep sucking down the hype. They don't share the same hosting for the frontend but they both use the same backend. The backend is of course owned by microsoft. duckduckgo uses bings backend and somehow you have convinced yourself beyond all evidence to the contray that it isn't bing with a different wrapper.
When you can't pay Stardew Valley (because Steam is down) you also can't play Eldenring. They must use the same backend and Eldenring is just Stardew Valley by another name.
You're going to need a better source than "they go down at the same time".
You are not getting it. Its a documented fact that duckduckgo uses bing search. You keep coming up with these other poor examples when its acknowledged by duckduckgo that they use bing. Of course they say they are more than bing but in the end that is just hype. This probably wont convince you since you are not looking for answers
This is because the company uses Microsoft's Bing to power its search results.
From this article https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/duckduckgo-what-to-know-about-google-searchs-privacy-focused-rival/
Laters
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DuckDuckGo also uses Bing under the hood.
Yes, duckduckgo uses other search engines to provide its results. Your point?
I don't care where duckduckgo gets the links from, I care how relevant the top links are and that they aren't being crowded out by ads.
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I've started a Kagi subscription for my new search engine. Basically $6 USD per month but because it's a user-pay model they have a really good privacy policy and don't sell/analyze your data.
It's currently better than Google (which I still use search in the maps for reviews)
You could give SearXNG a try. It's open source, you can host it yourself, and it has no ads or tracking. Most other search engines (including DuckDuckGo) make their income from ads, that alone makes them untrustworthy in my book. I'm using https://searxng.online/ and it works good enough.
Thanks I couldn't remember the name of this.
This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hours. It requires Javascript until the issue #9 is fixed.
I wish we had a government that functioned. This shot is 100% antitrust. How is it that this shit is let fly.
Antitrust would be the opposite.