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How to effectively search the Fediverse? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by am0@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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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?

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[–] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the same vein as dedicated forums, discoverability is harder, and that’s sadly just the nature of the beast.

One day someone may create a full indexer and scraper, but it’s still too early for that.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are 2 indexers. The community browser and lemmy.directory. The former is a searchable list of all communities in the federation, and the second one is a Lemmy instance with sign-up disabled so that his server doesn't explode that auto-subscribes to every community it sees.

[–] overlordror@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring back web rings!

[–] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was gonna say, I'm getting Geocities webring vibes. Not sure how I feel about that haha.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Shoot I'm going to have to bring back my Alicia Silverstone site. It killed on the old banner exchanges.