Neither DuckDuckGo nor Google are particularly good at it, since you can’t do something like site:reddit.com. How do you guye search or is this just an unsolved problem?
The built-in search feature is actually quite decent I find, is it not working well for you?
Perhaps I’ve missed a trick, it only searches for communities. I’m using Jerboa, the ‘official’ app.
There’s no way to search for individual posts or comments.
Should work just fine for posts and comments as well, for example, here’s a search result containing your comment
I’m being dim. This type of query can’t cover instances that lemmee, in this case, isn’t subscribed to, can it?
I use the Eternity client from F-Droid just for searching. It has extensive filtering support. It’s very sad that it lacks maintainership, this fork of Infinity for Reddit finally got me to migrate from reddit during the exodus. It still works though and the search is wonderful.
Did you try Raccoon for Lemmy? I am using it now, and was an Infinity user some time ago.
Voyager searches posts & communities. Looks like an iOS app (not surprising given its lineage) which a few months in is still taking some getting used to but its been a good replacement for the no longer developed Liftoff. Definitely worth trying
Not mine:
Search every lemmy instance:
You can append (intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy") to your search query to search through all Lemmy instances. Works with Google, Startpage, SearX.
To search for fish on lemmy, input
fish (intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy")
into google
This is really nice.
No equivalent way to do it on Duckduckgo, that you know of, right?
Example result when using a random SearxNG instance from the list : https://searx.space/
And the built-in search on Lemmy is usually rather fine for me.
Google smacks your SEO rating if you have the same content as other websites. The fediverse will face this problem for a while until search engines find a solution to it.
The default web UI search utils are very strong though. If you know content is on Lemmy, you can search by post type/author/instance/etc and find it quite fast.
Try this and see if it works for you.
