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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
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me (who searched for the majority of communities I'm currently subscribed to): We don't have what now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oh no, so being federated with mastodon means we have to suffer getting those kinds of hot takes on our timeline?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy has keyword based search lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open the menu, select Communities, set the filter to All, then type in words that you like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if the reason they thought there was no search because they're posting from Mastodon 🤷‍♀️

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