Part of the utility of Reddit to me was the ability to append “Reddit” to searches and be served relevant threads to my search query since Reddit was one of the last places to get information from real people. This has proven to be invaluable in troubleshooting. Is this possible with Lemmy or the greater Fediverse? As we pick up more users and content, it’s my hope I could do the same with Lemmy.
Or is it more like Discord where information isn’t indexed by search engines? One thing I’ve always despised about Discord is the inability to find information if you don’t belong to the communities that produce it and I’m hoping that’s not the case here.
Hopefully this isn’t too silly of a question I’m still trying to wrap my head around how all this works.
Yes but it will take at least a few years of organic use before you can do what we do with Reddit and add ‘Lemmy’ at the end of your search query.