Why YSK: Searching topcs on reddit was simple matter of entering desired term and prepending or appending keyword reddit. With lemmy’s decentralised structure finding particular topic without knowing to which, or rather if even there is community dealing with such topic(s) can be a headache inducing hurdle. So appending simple:
site: lemmy.*
site:lemmy.*
to Your google search feature can ease up search.
P.S.
to avoid certain domains You can use e.g.:
-site: beehaw
-site:beehaw
@edit: removed spaces thank You @inquisitor1965@kbin.social
Cool. Had no idea that wildcards work
lemmy.* doesn’t work for beehaw.org anyway
Sorry,
correct example might have been -site:lemmy.lm-site:lemmy.ml
@edit: corrected domain thank You @toki@lemmy.world
Someperson shall createth a copypasta of these terms of search that shall be needed to search on ALL of the kingdom of lemmy and associates. Until then let us pray that answered questions and questioned answers shall not disappear in the never ending greatness that is lemmy, as information shall be needed as needed shall be information!
Every browser supports adding custom search engines to the list. So you can prepare a query with all terms to be added and save it as a search engine. Fediverse search based on Google/Bing
It has been done!
Only downside is you won’t find stuff from domains without lemmy in them, e.g. feddit.de
There’s a silver lining here. It will prompt people to search from their instance instead of giving more traffic to Google.
Not all lemmy sites fit that though. You’ve already lost out on sh.itjust.works, beehaw, lem.ee, sopuli.xyz etc
OP is sharing a very useful tip for people new to the Fediverse. Let’s not allow our pedantry to get in the way of what is still a helpful tip please.
Fwiw I don’t think they were complaining. I found it useful to clarify that it’s not a complete search.
I frequently append “Reddit” to searches for more informative results. I can imagine that in the future it would be great do perform simalr searches covering all of the fediverse
So this is a good idea in principle, but there are a lot of sites that don’t follow the “lemmy.tld” format. I checked the list of instances connected to our site, lemmy.ninja. We’ve been up for a few days, so we’ve accumulated a lot of instances by now. Following the Lemmy.* format gave me 285 out of 585 of our current instances. So just under 50%.
@Kichae@kbin.social pointed out here why it may not really matter too much. As long as everything is pretty well cross pollinated, things should be discoverable. I imagine the bigger the user base the better it will be.
