What does it default to? Google+bing+DDG?

I’m not seeing that option anywhere. Nor does it allow me to change the “weight”. I found a github discussion saying it should show up after you save the settings, but I tried that on two instances and didn’t get any unique URL.

Ah, I found it under the “cookies” tab. Needs to be more obvious IMO.

it’s as good or better than

It’s only as good as the search engines you select. Which ones have you selected?

Exactly.

I checked it out, but most of the public instances I looked at use google + bing. I think I only came across one that used Mojeek, but they deranked it so google results were still at the top.

Yeah you can customize them – if you never clear your cookies.

Pretty much need to self-host it to customize it.

we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way

1. In my experience, many of the people claiming to be experts on reddit are spreading misinformation. This goes for Twitter too, and probably most other large social media sites. People love to be seen as an authority on a topic.
2. Reddit is anything but organic, and is getting worse and worse in this regard.

There’s a github issue requesting this feature.

I haven’t observed that on Lemmy or Mastodon.

I block politics subs and have never had an issue with lemmy.ml. All the issues I see are related to politics.

It used to be like that, but now a single reddit mod can archive any modmail, which generally prevents other mods from seeing it.

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What do you use instead?

They’re not images, they’re articles. You have to click on the link to read the article. @[email protected]

The heavy metals in coal are the most concerning for me.

I guess this is a bot? Can you change it to link directly to the article instead of the reddit post? I don’t want to visit reddit.

Well, various instances block each other, and mods and admins are not all on the same page. And just like it’s important to have independent instances, it’s important that single communities don’t dominate either.

I think a better solution would be to make a github suggestion to visually merge crossposted threads.

I think that has to do with your cookies. Your first one, I see wikipedia at #2, then jstor, then another site, then amazon again. There’s a lemmy.world post at #7.

You know a lot about the fediverse right? Do you know what the deal is with the crossposting feature? https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060607/14239219

Yeah, crossposting could definitely use some improvements. I noticed these threads are missing that “cross-posted to” notation as well. You may be right that it’s only for link posts.

The links just need to have a “no follow” attribute (which is something that Lemmy could add, if they haven’t already).

Sounds like a good suggestion to make on github. I don’t know how easy it would be to do that for only reddit links, and I’m not sure how the devs would feel about that.

Also, from your link:

The correlation for the number of “dofollow” backlinks is a little bit weaker than that of the total number of backlinks.

Here’s what Tim said about this:

This could be an indication that Google values some nofollowed links from strong pages more than followed links from weak pages. #whoknows Tim Soulo Tim Soulo, CMO Ahrefs

Take this finding with a large pinch of salt. The primary aim of this study was not to analyze the impact of nofollowed vs. followed links and as such, we didn’t make any effort to isolate this factor.

But even if we assume that nofollowed links have no direct impact on SEO, they can still have an indirect impact because: They help diversify your link profile

Natural backlink profiles are diverse.