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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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It's all well and good to have a revolution, but if nobody knows you're having one then nothing really changes. There are still benefits to centralised services, one of which being scale. To effectively index so much data you need scale, which is why smaller search engines tend to be just white labels of things like Bing.
100k people isn't nobody. Centralized services can be useful at times, but there is no fundamental law preventing a decentralized system from providing the same functionality.
The value of indexing data drops drastically when much of that data is junk, as is the case in the wider internet. Because Lemmy is a federation, there is a built in system to filter the junk.