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.
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.
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
Try this and see if it works for you.
This is great!
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.Searxng has options to do such a thing
