DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

  • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    322·
    2 months ago

    That would defeat the purpose of federation.

    It becomes a central choke point of moderation. Who gets to decide what instances are part of global and which ones aren’t. Because a free for all isn’t going to end well. And then you’re back at Reddit.

    • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      I wonder if you could have an instance federated to every other instance just for archived purposes, to save the data on every other instance’s post and comment. Because copies of posts and comments are saved to federated instances, too, right? Or do I understand the tech wrong?

      So it could have an admin team but no users, to prevent people worried about spammers and bots joining that instance to get around defederation rules. Maybe it just has a bot that crawls Lemmy, looking for instances to federate to. Could that work?

    • rbits@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Right, but having a centralised search index thingy is better than none at all. Maybe there could be something where it’s a joint effort from admins from many of the biggest servers, idk if that would work.