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I was just thinking about this, when I'm facing an issue, the first thing I do is go to a search engine and usually there's a Reddit post. But I don't want to ask there. And the only way we're going to build up the info for folks to find us and come here is for us to just start asking here. On the Fediverse. We need to build up that mountain of knowledge that Reddit has and will always have. So we should be championing ANYONE asking questions here. Even if we think it's obvious and we think you can just Google it. There was a time where you literally couldn't just Google it. That was built over time. We need to build that here. So start asking your questions here! Find the answers and then post your answer to your own question. Or let someone do it for you. We need to build the knowledge here to be found. It's not just about people looking for alternatives. We need our knowledge to be more valuable than their knowledge.

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[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Kagi has a search lens for Fediverse forums like Lemmy. More content in Lemmy will make that even better

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Just to save people a rabbithole.

Kagi is pretty cool. But it’s not free. And for most people who don’t have much disposable income it’s not really a justifiable expense to pay for a search engine.

[–] Steve@communick.news 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Of course if one truly can't afford it, paying for search can seem a luxury.

However I would argue as a counterpoint; If there's any online service one would consider paying for, it should be search. Search is most literally our "front page to the internet". It's our first stop in any quest for information. Even the founders of Google knew early on, that putting adds in search creates a perverse incentive against the best results, favoring instead worse results, so people perform more searches, creating more opportunities to show people adds.

$5 a month isn't much to know your query will give the results you want, instead of the results advertisers want.

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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reddit took many years to build that reputation. And earned creepy badges along the way. I'm not saying the fediverse doesn't need to do it, but let's not be in a rush. We have technical challenges, and a lemmy.world, and a .ml problem before we're ready for the big leagues

And being niche is fine for now, email was tiny for decades

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

What's going on with lemmy.world?

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Depending on who you ask, a lot. Or very little.

For me today, though, it was the large downtime earlier. It's big by Fediverse standards, microscopic by Reddit standards, and as-is it struggles to keep stable uptime some days.

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[–] Olap@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

It is lemmy essentially. By far most communities, users, and a single point of failure in essence. That makes is quite good for getting it technically correct however, the best kind of correct

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 12 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

Ok then.

Why does everyone hate the issi classic in GTA online, everytime I take my little beast out for a drive some massive car or Batmobile comes along and focuses their energy on destroy it.

I just want to do tiny burnouts.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

At least four, possibly more.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Finally I get an answer, thank you.

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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

There is one worry I have about Lemmy being the knowledge of anything and it’s what happened on reddit. Many people went through and nuked their comments, essentially making many posts useless. There are already people here on lemmy that delete their profiles, comments and start over every few months. Not really sure what that means for all the federation, but I assume different instances may have different versions of deleted information in the long run?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

On the flip side, keeping your personal online footprint small is definitely more secure.

Maybe we need a soft kill switch to disassociate content with an account after x amount of time. Like for me personally, I've put zero effort into mopping up old content, and as often as I post, I'm sure someone with the desire could put the pieces together and dox me.

I've left it up anyway cuz I don't want to do to Lemmy what you're concerned about, but if I could nuke all my content older than a few months into an anonymous version, I'd be all for that. Leave the info up for anyone who might benefit from it, but scrub my username.

That said, for community building sake, I'd hate to see posts go anonymous right out the gate like some 4chan shit; and posts should be associated with an account at least long enough for mods to have a reasonable amount of time to take action against an account that breaks the rules. But again, posts that are months old? The conversation there is over - my personal involvement is moot at that point, it's just data now.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Disassociating with old comments and posts would be a good way to go, but I’m not really sure that’s an option for the fediverse? In theory couldn’t someone in the future set up an instance whose sole purpose is just back up and collect data? How would someone even go about trying to erase themselves from a situation like that?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I don't think there would be any way to protect from that, but you'd have the same issue with full deletion.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago

You're absolutely right, somebody totally could do that (instances that don't respect post/reply deletion requests are already a known issue), and there's very little you could do about that sort of thing once it's already happened.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

We can make a Fedi-Wiki that requires you to agree to the terms that everything you publish is considered public, kinda like a source code under GPL.

Edit: Lol I just remembered it's called Creative Commons. Its what Wikipedia uses.

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[–] ozoned@piefed.social 3 points 20 hours ago

You can't stop people changing their mind about deleting stuff. That can and should happen for any number of reasons, both good and bad. There are servers that would still have the information, but it feels like there's less incentive to fully delete an account on the Fediverse as you can literally pick up the same conversation with a new account. Maybe I just don't do enough social media use and miss the point. I deleted my stuff from Reddit, because I don't want to help Reddit and it should be my private data. Fediverse we are all public and there is no tracking anyway. So whoever you are here, you're it here, no where else, even with the same name.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

That needs to be in the form of a question, right?

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

I don’t know, does it?

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[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

100% agree and I would like to add on to it that it's worth just posting information, too.

Did you run into a weird error with your Linux install and have a difficult, yet interesting time troubleshooting it? Post the solution! Even if it doesn't directly address someone else's problem, often finding pieces of an issue and correlating them with a bigger problem can help.

I don't run a personal blog and downvotes mean literally nothing here, so have at it!

I went cold turkey on Reddit when they stopped API access and it was rough in the beginning, but I get ever so slightly hints of the old internet here on Lemmy. It's raw, but it's fresh and it's ours. I love it.

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 4 points 18 hours ago

I'm happy to see people post about something cool they found, like some new software or whatever. Even if everyone else already knows about it and no one interacts, it's not useless information.

And if downvotes bother you, that’s okay. There are plenty of instances that don’t show it, say lemmy.blahaj.zone.

Also, on some UI’s you can disable it even on instances that show it.

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[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

What's the right translation for "pepper" in German? And red pepper, green pepper and so on? I found several words that seem to mean pepper, but not sure if any is better than the others.

[–] AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Also, Bell pepper is Paprika in german

[–] ZonenRanslite@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Pepper is Pfeffer, red pepper is roter Pfeffer, green pepper is grüner Pfeffer und so weiter. Ich hoffe ich konnte ihnen helfen. Einen schönen Tag noch.

[–] stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 16 hours ago

Pepper can also translate to Paprika though when talking about plants. A pepper plant is a paprika in German. Spicy peppers are chillies.

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Another idea is an asking system that compiles answers from the web while also posting the question here. Gives the benefit of immediate answers while also populating the fediverse.

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[–] malloc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fediverse to replace stackoverflow would be something I am interested in.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 23 hours ago

Fedi-Overflow?

Stackiverse?

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 day ago

Same here, it'd have to be something AI-hardened, though, still.

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[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I personally only ask when I can't find anything on the internet, but that's a good idea

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Why isn't 11 pronounced 'Onety One'?

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Probably a similar reason 22 isn’t pronounced ‘Twoty Two’

[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's a hangover from earlier base 12 counting systems in which things like eggs would be counted in dozens.

You need 12 unique symbols in a base 12 system.

Thirteen through nineteen come from a different language source than eleven and twelve.

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[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Still not nearly as annoying as the French refusal to just say huitante or nonante. "93" is "Quadrupletwenty-thirteen?" Êtes-vous foutant défoncé??

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[–] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Using a search engine and adding "Lemmy" will, given there is info of course, work similar to adding reddit before.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.kgon.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

I'd like to see that happen. Search indexes will have to keep track of the fact, for instance, jlai.lu or infosec.pub are Lemmy instances despite the fact that they might not have "Lemmy" in the url, or even the page title.

It can be done of course, but it's not like with reddit.com, where anything at that domain is automatically associated with the keyword "Reddit."

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

it'd be nice if you could do a site:reddit.com kinda thing for lemmy, maybe there could be a filter added in searxng or something

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

There are some questions I just honestly would like a few opinions on and/or discussion around and I certainly prefer to do those here and here from members of the federation.

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[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I've made a conscious effort to start doing this in conversations in general instead of opening up a browser tab. Yeah, "just google it" is a thing, but asking is often enough if you're not in a hurry, so why not?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 21 hours ago

Return to being social 🐒

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