Why YSK: Searching topcs on reddit was simple matter of entering desired term and prepending or appending keyword reddit. With lemmy’s decentralised structure finding particular topic without knowing to which, or rather if even there is community dealing with such topic(s) can be a headache inducing hurdle. So appending simple:

site: lemmy.*

site:lemmy.*

to Your google search feature can ease up search.

P.S.

to avoid certain domains You can use e.g.:

-site: beehaw.org

-site:beehaw.org

@edit: removed spaces thank You @inquisitor1965@kbin.social

  • Briskfall
    1•2 years ago

    I’ve had better results searching through the instances themselves because Google doesn’t always index the keywords on time. On caveat of this method is that if the instance doesn’t have the syncing out the instance where the info is from being propagated, then this trick would not work

  • readbeanicecream
    0•2 years ago

    Duckduckgo has a bang for Mastodon: !msocial. Maybe we should start putting in requests for Fediverse bangs: !lemmy, !kbin, !beehaw, etc.

    It would be better if they would add !fediverse that searches all of the sites. Maybe one day!

    • Kichae
      0•2 years ago

      I assume msocial only searches mastodon.social?

      • readbeanicecream
        1•2 years ago

        looks like it. !msocial {{{string}} points to https://mastodon.social/tags/string. So, !msocial Cats searches https://mastodon.social/tags/Cats.

  • inquisitor1965
    0•2 years ago

    Pretty sure there shouldn’t be a space between the term “site:” and the domain

  • MxM111
    0•2 years ago

    But will it omit other things like kbin.social?

    • readbeanicecream
      2•2 years ago

      probably. So you could add it as a site search string; such as: site:lemmy.* OR site:kbin.social -site:beehaw.org cats

  • @Jessica@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    YSK: This doesn’t work in DuckDuckGo because I just independently had the idea to try this a few days ago and returned no results. I didn’t think to try on Google. I believe DuckDuckGo is running on Microsoft Bing so it likely doesn’t work there either

    • deo
      1•2 years ago

      On DuckDuckGo you can use:

      !g site: lemmy.*

      to be redirected to an anonymous Google search

  • @RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    So this is a good idea in principle, but there are a lot of sites that don’t follow the “lemmy.tld” format. I checked the list of instances connected to our site, lemmy.ninja. We’ve been up for a few days, so we’ve accumulated a lot of instances by now. Following the Lemmy.* format gave me 285 out of 585 of our current instances. So just under 50%.