Submitted 3 months ago by rabber@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
Generically, with site:programming.dev, replace with your own instance.
But it assumes two things:
You may need to try a different instance for 1, but 2 is not really solvable.
But what about all instances?
2 is solvable if this search is possible.
You might try searxng, though due to the way federation works, that’s not really necessary. All you need to do is search one of the more federated instances like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or lemmy.sdf.org and you will pull up anything that server has seen related to your search. User blocks aren’t really an issue, since you don’t need to be logged in. The only time searching multiple instances would be helpful is if you know the post originally might have come from an instance that doesn’t widely federate or is heavily blocked from federation.
Also I’ve seen quite a few folks from lemmy.ca so you might try your instance’s own search. It will usually search federated content as well as local content.
The main issue though is like @CameronDev@programming.dev suggested. Lemmy is young, it doesn’t have nearly 20 years of back archives that you can search nor the huge user base that Reddit had to create such a rich back archive. It’s getting there, but it is a problem only time and usage of Lemmy will solve.
As for the best Lemmy app, You might give Voyager a go. I use it on iOS and have been quite happy with it.
rust (site:programming.dev | site:lemmy.world)
That seemed to work, I guess you could keep appending instances?
Its just google, so no user specific impact.
Here is my attempt in a separate post:
I feel like though if you put too much site filters, results might be reduced in an unexpected way (like searching “X” thing on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml might produce fewer results than searching “X” on lemmy.world only)
Your instance holds a copy of the information, so just use your instance url. Unless your instance is down, in which case you should not use your instance url
The biggest impediment to using lemmy as a less shitty SO/Reddit is that there simply isn’t the volume of answers here. Eventually there may be - and I’d argue that the quality of answer is generally better here - but currently there are a lot of questions that simply haven’t been asked.
The meme about googling site:Reddit comes out of how deeply shitty Google has let their search engine become. In an ideal world you’d just search on Google and get decent quality responses instead of needing to domain bind your results.
Maybe it’d be helpful to try a quality search engine like Kagi?
The meme about googling site:Reddit comes out of how deeply shitty Google has let their search engine become.
It was two-part, the other side was that reddit’s own search was so crap people use google search instead.
I feel like when the volume of answers does get to the point of usefulness it’ll be infected by the same corporate trash that took over Reddit.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions here! I was a bit scared at first but you’ll get used to it
I find the community here overall hostile unfortunately
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
I mean, “[problem] + Lemmy” works
Actually put Lemmy in quotes and it’ll return better results
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Ok that actually kinda works indeed, nice😄