I notice that unless a post is really popular on Lemmy, when you make a search online. You won’t find it. Is there a reason for this and how do we make it so it’s as easy to access like Reddit.
With federation, a server tends to have posts/comments for the communities that its users subscribe to. You most likely will get the most comprehensive search result on the biggest instance, which is lemmy.world now. And who knows when it’s going to start dropping off old data.
lenninscjay@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I think it’s the way the fediverse works, and inherit limitation, by the fact that it’s not all on one server that’s easily indexed.
However we do have lemmy search:
lemmy.world/post/963301
FuckSpez@lemmy.one 1 year ago
If only it allowed to search all the communities at once, since it can’t do that it’s not really helpful