It’s excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.

Like, I select all and then search a query. “Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won’t see it here.”

Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the ‘all’ servers, I should have a list of ‘all’ the servers containing that string.

It’s a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to make these ‘features’ more intuitive.

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    Someone will implement it.

    The protocol itself is decentralized. Which is good.

    If a app wants to use a central service to search thats a option available to them.

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      Userbase don’t care about how the tech works under the hood - user base sees no content and goes back to Reddit.

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        If they can’t bother with investigating the platform for 10 minutes, I think they should stay on Reddit and keep complaining about the awful app and website over there.

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          Winning tactic. I’d like to stay a place with people with knowledge and interesting viewpoint, regardless of their ability to find search services on other websites to locate content.

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            At this very moment, there is a choice between two options

            • an easy to use place managed by a company that see user data as resources to be sold to advertisers
            • an emerging platform where some features are still being implemented, but without any tracking of its users, and managed by volunteers

            Hopefully in the near future some features such as the one highlighted by OP will be integrated in the platform, but right now, it’s not, which is why I said that if people cannot search a bit about the current state of Lemmy, they should probably head back to Reddit. And I say that hoping that once the platform is polished enough, they’ll come back.

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              How does posting and reading posts work - and how do you know that nobody tracks their users? I was under the assumption that admins of a node have totals access to data going in/out/through their instance.

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                Just have a look at the data accessed by the apps, both stores display them. It’s something else than the Reddit app.

                There might be some data agregation on the server side indeed, but compared to the ads promotion machine than Reddit has become (and even announced openly, with subreddits now being platform to promote products), it’s a completely different story.

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      Thanks for the heads up.

      I’m not exactly sure what features are up to the admins and which are standard. If there’s a server that implements this and mine doesn’t, I can definitely see myself switching.

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          So, small instances are bad if you don’t want to rely on third party services to find other communities?

          Gee, what great design. Thank you for defending it for me and telling me to just switch to a different server. That really is the solution.

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            You seem to be quite a negative person.

            That’s okay, but I don’t think that adds much to the discussion.

            I offered you a solution to the very issue you are facing. If you are unhappy with it, you can probably just leave this place.

            Have a good day.

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              This is a solution for 1 single person. It doesn’t solve the greater problem that the experience is VERY inconsistent for new users depending on whether they got lucky and first joined a large instance or if they got unlucky and joined a small instance. It also doesn’t retroactively repair the horrible first experience that new users have with lemmy.

              What you offered really isn’t an solution as much as it is mansplaining…and that’s not really helpful at all when what we’re talking about here are the perceptions of new users.

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              You didn’t really offer me a solution nor did you answer my question. You also made the sny remark, “If they can’t bother with investigating the platform for 10 minutes, I think they should stay on Reddit and keep complaining about the awful app and website over there.”

              You’re unwilling to take any criticism of lemmy. You are the kind of person that prevents it from getting better and more accessible to a general audience.

              I’m sorry for not giving you praise for not contributing anything of value.