Hey everyone,

This isn’t an announcement, just wanted peoples thoughts on this.

I think everyone knows searching the fediverse can be better. Googling doesn’t work too well, etc. So I wanted to do my part and help out.

Indexing all posts, etc is quite a lot to handle, so I wanted to start small and just focus on video search. I’ve started indexing videos from Peertube and other video websites. (Even YouTube but this could be removed to just focus on independent sites)

I know Peertube has their own search engine for videos. I will be reaching out to them. Compared to my site I’m planning it’ll have other video sources and be easier to use.

So that leads to feedback from you guys.

  • What do you think about indexing videos posted on the fediverse and other independent platforms?
  • Are there similar services?
  • Am I just wasting my time?
  • stockRot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    11 months ago

    You should federate the search engine so that folks can defed from the search as desired.

    But then we would need a search engine for all the search engines…

    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      Everything you post on the Fediverse is public.
      If you don’t want to show up in an internet search, post your stuff on your private server and only give access to the people you want to invite.