NOTE: the late “Lemmy” is a beloved Brit* musician from an enjoyable rock band, perhaps with some Led Zep-type analogues? (sorry, I just didn’t know him very well; kinda before my time)


Okay, what I’m trying to explain here is how we search for things and how we find them, particularly when we include the magical word: “Lemmy” in our searches.

For example-- I can just half-awake, lazily type something like “reddit” + search term, and BOOM! Robert’s your avuncular figure.**

Now, by comparison, hopping on an instance, so far I’ve found that searches within the Lemmysphere are remarkably strong. (well, at least for lemm.ee; I love my instance)

Unfortunately, that’s not how most people search and find us, which more typically involves Google, etc.

Hence my question, laddies & lassies-- i.e. is there anything we can do to influence how this search-stuff works…?


* see, I always find a way to relate things back to Europe, haha

** like “there you go,” ie. “Bob’s your uncle,” a classic Brit pub-phrase

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    A search engine could easily enough set up their own Lemmy server to search from. Same with Mastodon.

    Sure, but if Google actually did that, a lot of people here would go apeshit about them profiting from this content.