Proposing that Lemmy or Kbin could substitute for Reddit while not acknowledging that lack of search makes it impossible to find the appropriate groups in a decentralized maze of servers is very on-brand for the Mastodon crowd.
#search #reddit #federated
@fediverse
On-brand implies this is typical of them and has been done by them in the past. What do you even mean by saying this is on-brand?
I’ll bite.
It’s like the early internet, you have to move around and eventually you’ll find what you are looking for. Follow that link! Search engines were useful for that back in the day.
I bet we’ll have similar services even if we do not have them just yet.
I’m not sure why Mastodon posts always end up looking so bad on Lemmy. The title is always gored and the post always has hashtags that do nothing in Lemmy. Just because they’re technically cross compatible doesn’t mean they should be.
Mostly because the people writing them don’t understand how their post will be parsed, and the post lives simultaneously on Lemmy / Kbin and Mastodon.
Lemmy just takes the first paragraph from the post as the title. So if the poster knows that, they can format it like:
Title title title
Body of post
@osma if kbin doesn’t have a group you’re looking for, then make it on kbin. maybe it’s just my newbie kbinaut perspective but kbin groups come first, federation second.
Lemmy has keyword based search lol
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Sure it’s not a 100% drop-in replacement for reddit yet, but it’s still very early days. It’ll get there
oh no, so being federated with mastodon means we have to suffer getting those kinds of hot takes on our timeline?
Me (who searched for the majority of communities I’m currently subscribed to): We don’t have what now?
