In the past, when searching on a search engine, I would use “site:reddit.com” to narrow down my results. However, with Lemmy having different instances that may contain varying content, I found myself unsure of how to approach searching effectively. While the Lemmy search feature is useful at times, I sometimes miss the convenience of using a dedicated search engine. To address this, I developed a script that formats the most popular instances and allows me to search within them. Nevertheless, I wonder if there is a more convenient method for accomplishing this task. If anyone has any suggestions or tips, I would greatly appreciate it.
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An ideal search engine for this sort of thing will look different from a generic web search engine.
This would actually be a pretty good opportunity for a new search project: indexing fediverse information and making it (as the saying goes) universally accessible & useful.
If there was an instance well populated that didn’t block or get block by other instances that would be enough, because it would copy the content from every other instance, but that doesn’t seem likely.
ActivityPub doesn’t have a flood-fill model like NNTP, though. Until instance A has a user that’s subscribed to a community on instance B, instance A doesn’t know about that community and maybe not even that instance.
That’s why the instance needs to be well-populated, so there are more chances of the content being replicated. However, the more users there are, the more likely someone gets annoyed and decides to defederate from them.
For the first several years of this service existing, expect a lot of friction as people who run instances figure out how to accomplish the goals that brought them to this service. That’s normal. If it seems odd, go look at the history of IRC!
I would love to read more about this. Do you happen to have any good resources I could read into?
Fantastic. Thank you for the info!
This is the tough part about the new federated stuff for me. I’m having a hard time understanding the best way look and search across a range of communities similar to what I would get on an /r/all or just a reddit search. I’m not sure if that’s asking for too much from this though
You can use the search button/box (top right) you can select what you want to search too
I just saw this post about DuckDuckGo working ok with federated servers. https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/30176/Just-found-out-that-DuckDuckGo-can-be-used-to-search
Learn new things and get support. I can relate to your point 2, I’ve quit alcohol 5 years ago, couldn’t have done it without SD. Also discovered live improving things like bidets because of Reddit. And I even made friends!
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Oops sorry! Still learning.
It’s a well known bug, probably not your fault :)
Ahh good to know! Thought I was going crazy as I’m pretty sure I replied to the right post.
You can try this
Seems like an instance and community browser. But I mean to search for words in posts and comments.
