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Less posts than lemmy? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by elucubra@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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I seem to see less posts than in my lemmy instance. Is this normal?

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sounds good, thanks!
Right now it does seem like PieFed-instance /c's don't show up too much in Lemmy, Mbin, etc instance searches for the reasons you've already covered.

Also, various outside tool searches don't seem to find PF stuff for other reasons, such as: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Not sure if there are alternative, FV-wide tools that can do a more inclusive job of such searches, but so far I don't think I've found any. :S

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure if there are alternative, FV-wide tools that can do a more inclusive job of such searches, but so far I don’t think I’ve found any. :S

https://piefed.social/communities

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you, boss. Ultimately I'm hoping that there's more of popular, general-FV search place in which PF communities can be discovered by non-PF users.

I'd like to see the PF side more discoverable, for fairly obvious lessons, eheh.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You need to switch to the "Piefed explorer" on the top left corner.

Here's a direct link: https://lemmyverse.net/piefed/communities

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://lemmyverse.net/piefed/communities

Thanks!
I don't think Mbin and PieFed were search options as of my last-use attempt. That's some good news.

That said, it doesn't look like the query box does anything just yet in PF-mode. Perhaps it's in progress? I poked around the GitHub a bit, but couldn't find anything obvious. (couldn't even find a change-log or equivalent, for that matter oO)

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep. Seems like the implementation is not fully done yet. Might be a good idea to open a new issue in their github repo.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's probably not going to happen

I think I'd make an offspin of this project, as the current project is centered around only Lemmy, I don't think I'd be willing to build in global search as a thing in this project.

https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/284

This kind of explore features should be built in the software the way Piefed does it with https://piefed.social/communities

Relying on external tools is always going to create this kind of issues

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, I realised just now that you'd commented further:

This kind of explore features should be built in the software the way Piefed does it with https://piefed.social/communities

Relying on external tools is always going to create this kind of issues

Hell, yes.

It seems to me that while this might only be a 'lurking' issue for now, in the larger sense it's a huge, honking issue for our beloved, imperfect Fediverse. That is-- the smaller the FV-entity, the greater the need to be easily discoverable by larger FV entities, particularly as the 'little guy' passes a certain threshold of longevity, quality content, good general behavior, etc.

I do wonder how much this issue is on peoples' minds across the FV...