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How to effectively search the Fediverse?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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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.