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Anyone have good ways to search through lemmy posts? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The built-in search feature is actually quite decent I find, is it not working well for you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Should work just fine for posts and comments as well, for example, here's a search result containing your comment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm being dim. This type of query can't cover instances that lemmee, in this case, isn't subscribed to, can it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's true, it will only show content which has been federated to lemm.ee, so indeed if you want to search for more content than is available on your instance, you would need some additional tools for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's what I thought, phew!

Global searches for things is how I discovered subreddits that are my topic of interest but are called - for me anyway - unusual names! I can't expect any one instance to carry all of Lemmy so I was asking about a search engine.

That said, your search method is probably much better than what I'm doing now! Thank-you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I find it decent for finding communities. I've never found a way to search actual content, either.