Oh no, not a Pay to Win x HostileArchitecure collaboration!!
This is giving me peak ABoringDystopia vibes…
description:: Cute animal fan. Me love blob, do you love blob?
currentMood:: Cute animal “magazines” or instances when??? Can’t migrate from Reddit fully without them!
e.g.
r/AnimalsBeingDerps
r/borbs
r/Catloaf
r/Pigifs
r/happycowgifs
currentGoal:: finish backlog OTL
Oh no, not a Pay to Win x HostileArchitecure collaboration!!
This is giving me peak ABoringDystopia vibes…
I used to not do it, but I’ve been influenced by Bing after talking to it for so long during the closed beta (I guess that this is an effect of subconsciously mirroring it so that I don’t get kicked out before the 5 turn limit back in the days haha 😂)
Then again, in diverse online communities, there are various styles and voices that are eventually formed to be what’s “acceptable” be the general consensus. As Lemmy is very new, it has yet to find its voice yet… I think 🤔.
I think that giving too many choices to users who are already confused by the concept of federation and instances will enhance their paralysis of making choice due to cognitive overload (See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice ).
I’ve found out kbin.social the easiest to get used to (end-user wise).
How long does it usually take for google to index websites? Because I tried the string lemmy site:lemmy.ml after:2023-06-15
and only one post turned up for me and it was Memes
… the current state of affairs does not seem promising 😔 And if I tried with another instance with the same keywords lemmy site:kbin.social after:2023-06-15
nothing even turned up.
I wonder though, will search engines adapt to Lemmy and its fediverse system? Or will search engines die? Or will we see dedicated search engines to search through the fediverse?
Unfortunately, I’ve been getting some 404 not found
of some communities/magazines of some instances that are not from the instance I’m using, e.g. I’m using kbin.social
at the current posting account, but let’s say that I tried to access something like https://sh.itjust.works/c/skincareaddiction
there’s no issues whatsoever (since it’s the main instance where that community spawned off) but if I tried https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]
then I would get the aforementioned error code. I find it pretty inconvenient that caching/indexing of certain less popular (which I assume is what is happening) community working clunkily, it feels not as reliable than using a centralized service, but I guess that this is the price to pay for a decentralized system.
Two, but only because I can’t log into the other fediverse instance that I’ve registered (sh.itjust.works).
There’s way more but I visit those a bit less, the problem is, I’m not sure if Lemmy can fill the void in my heart but if it does for those main ones (all above) then I think that I can permanently migrate from Reddit.
I’ve had better results searching through the instances themselves because Google doesn’t always index the keywords on time. On caveat of this method is that if the instance doesn’t have the syncing out the instance where the info is from being propagated, then this trick would not work