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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[–] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 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

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago

Kagi has a lens that only searches the Fediverse.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.kgon.ca 5 points 11 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."