guyinahat (@werefreeatlast@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
Do you guys realize that Google can't or isn't scraping Mastodon, Lemmy or the fediverse? The implications are astronomical! Would you be on a website that offers searching ads? That's Google. They are fucked! Once people leave into their local, unsearchable fediverse niche. Google's days are counted. Would you offer news for free to a company that sells ads? Or would you offer news on your own fediverse? Google is done...but we need a fediverse search engine, or we are too.

I didn’t realize this before, but as more people join up, human history on the internet will be here. We will need a search engine to replace Google because Google probably can’t search the fediverse. It’s a very interesting problem for sure. For example, if I need car trouble help, I search “reddit, Honda Civic 2005, starter noises” and I get useful information from others. If you don’t add “reddit” you get garbage results. One day, reddit will be just one guy keeping the lights on like the myspace guy or that meta or Tweeter guy. It’s going to suck if we can’t find each other’s ideas and posts.