Hi, I’m relatively new here. Like probably a lot of people, I appended the word “reddit” to most of my searches to get discussions around my interests/news or to find “curated” things. I noticed that it does not work as great with “Lemmy” for example, as the user base is more spread out and smaller in general.
- I’ve looked for a search engine for the Lemmy or fediverse with no luck. There exists some to find communities but not to return posts it seems.
- If it does not exists, is this even something that can be built? Would one need to build a crawler or use an API? I would be very interested to contribute to such a project.
Sure this is technically true, but it doesn’t really fix the human need to find things. It would be better if some grouping of Fediverse instances came together under a common banner and agreed to certain protocols that helped make things like mass-indexing easier. This would enable a better frontend experience for people trying to find good content. In fact I think building more protocols on top of the existing one would be exactly inline with the philosophical underpinnings of the Fediverse