A great use for reddit is the ability to search posts and opinions about any niche topic. Will that be possible with Lemmy as it grows? Will I be able to Google “instant rice Lemmy” and get a comprehensive tier list of each brand?
I imagine search engines will have trouble with all the different instances(?). EDIT: Especially with instances that don’t have Lemmy in their name, I don’t think search engines would return them for Lemmy searches?
How would they? It’s all decentralized
Google could prevent lemmy pages from showing up in the results for example.
Or they could adapt the protocol, make their own slightly tweaked version of it and let it die, which apparently often also kills the original protocol due to newly introduced compatibility issues, etc.
Not sure about the second part, I read about it here somewhere where they mentioned an example of that happening as well but I can’t find it anymore.
They could join the fediverse, attract a majority of users to their platform by adding attractive features, and then remove themselves from the fediverse effectively killing it
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html