Lemmy’s search, rediscoverability of older threads has a few things left to be desired, and deleted posts make the comment contents very hard to found, but overall it prioritizes persistence against censorship and archivability over keeping communications private and ephemeral, which is what I like about it.
Even Reddit’s search was infamously terrible, it’s just they
arewere properly indexed by search engines. In the case of the threadiverse there’s a lot of duplication in the indexes because it’s simply not a monolithic service
yeah 100% agree. you’re feeding reddit when you post to it. none of that is gonna help the community long-term, as it’s all gonna land behind ad-ridden spyware paywalls. it’s only gonna shift power to the upper classes who then own the data.
Unfortunately there’s no better alternative, so make use of the Internet Archive.
What about starting ones own Website/Weblog?
That’s just me yelling into the void. Where’s the discourse? Where’s the process of finding the truth? Where’s me learning something from that writing?
The process of writing a (somewhat) longform text usually leads to learning. But I get it, it’s not particularly interactive by itself.
Had the same issue when I was writing a sci fi story with write freely. Sure you can see the view count go up, but without interactivity or feedback, I was just no longer motivated even though I had the rest of the story partially outlined :(
The link they chose for lemmy is … interesting. Not quite sure what they’re trying to say with it, is it their own personal account?
The data loss issue definitely applies to Lemmy, indeed. Sure you can use tools to archive your content, but it’s still effort and only easily possible if the instance announces that they’re going to go down - if the instance has a single point of failure and that person is suddenly gone (death, illness, lemmy drama …), you might not be able to do that. And the churn can be quite substantial depending on your choice of instances. And TBH it feels a little absurd to set up an automated backup method for your Lemmy activity.
