This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • Limeey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It would be better to replicate the db into a purpose built search engine like elasticsearch or TypeSense, and then modify the UI to use that. It’s dumb for lemmy to implement a search engine when there are better more supported systems out there. This isn’t really a lemmy feature, imo, outside of supporting deployments using those types of products.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy would still need to provide the UI for searching, and handle keeping Elasticsearch up-to-date.

      A dependency on Elasticsearch would significantly increase RAM usage though, so if Lemmy were to add support for it, it should be optional.