Hello all. Like many new users, I am a reddit refugee. Please forgive me if this isn’t the best community for my question; I am still learning my way around here.
I am used to google searching “[THING] site:reddit.com” when I want to see the opinions of real people on a topic rather than the flood of clickbait articles you get nowadays with Google.
What is the best way to execute this type of search within the Fediverse rather than Reddit?
Searching different instances is sometimes turned off or even frowned upon. I think indexing is “opt-in” in many cases.
Searching Lemmy might be a different story. You may need to create some sort of filter to search multiple instances. You could probably set up a focus filter on Mojeek https://www.mojeek.com/focus/ and see how that does.
Just to follow up here.
Mojeek can search multiple sites at the same time and create a filter bubble thing.
Most search engines use the
site:operator so focus on one site. Mojeek Focus lets you create a set of sites to search. If you plug in a bunch of Lemmy instances you can sort of search across instances.For example, I used the following to search across a few instances:
{"lemmy":"i=beehaw.org,lemmy.ml,lemmy.world,feddit.de,sh.itjust.works,sopuli.xyz"}(you can Restore that on the Focus dashboard to use the same filter, and add to it as well).Not great, but it complements the available built-in search.