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Just found out that DuckDuckGo can be used to search Fediverse sites easily. (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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If you didn't know, on DuckDuckGo you can search for posts or magazines with site:kbin.social just like you would with Reddit. The same applies to any other Fediverse site like Kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.. I was really frustrated because it seems like Google was intentionally suppressing them.

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[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It the other way around: kbin.social explicitly does not allow indexing by search engines. If DuckDuckGo ignores this default, the fault is basically not with Google.

[–] slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Why?

[–] Timwi@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Because it puts a considerable strain on Kbin’s servers, because there is a lot of content to crawl.

I suspect (hope, even) that if Kbin runs on beefier hardware some time in the future, crawling can be enabled. However, since Kbin is completely free and devoid of ads, we would probably need to start a donation drive to make that happen.

[–] slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, makes sense. I seems like 90% of the Fediverse's problems revolve around size limits. I feel bad for Ernest having to deal with all of this himself.

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