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?
I find it decent for finding communities. I’ve never found a way to search actual content, either.
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
Well I’ll be damned. I will start trying this more.
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.
I tried out Raccoon for a while, but I always accidentally up or downvoted posts while scrolling because it was super sensitive. So I switched back to Eternity (Nightly). But it may be fixed in the meantime…
Do they maintain it? Has the same level of customisation?
Thanks, I’ll try it
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.Could you give an example URL?
To search for fish on lemmy, input
fish (intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy")
into google
Thank you. Worked like a charm
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.
Add this search string in Firefox/Librewolf/Mull. On Desktop you need the addon “add custom search engine”, on mobile its integrated. (No idea why)
Tor
There dont seem to be discoverable lemmy instances on Tor, even though there is a guide.
You could use this for searching lemmy over tor:
Note that the
(intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy")method seems better. The fedi-search is also awesome.On desktop you can somehow enable it in about:config if you don’t want to install an addon.
Damn? Where? I found something called “newsearch” but no GUI appeared on Librewolf
Try this and see if it works for you.
This is great!
Searxng has options to do such a thing
Depends a lot of which client you use, so it’s hard to say. But the built-in feature accessible via web is pretty good.
All content should be very similar since it’s federated so pick your least defederated instance and try it. Kagi offers a fediverse search lens.
