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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do you think it will ever be possible to do that for all the Lemmy instances?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much all content gets federated to lemmy.world so if you use site:lemmy.world that'll do it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

If you look for something related to piracy, sadly it won't show.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Kagi.com has a lens for the fediverse. A lens is basically a scope within which performing the search.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy's built-in search barely works as it is, so unless some drastic changes happen it's resounding no.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Web search engines don't rely on sites' built-in search features.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is how we found anything on reddit for most of its useful life. Its search was always garbage so we relied on Google to come up with usable results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's miles better than reddit's search has ever been.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. The best option we have imo is a service that indexes everything on one site so traditional search engines can find it. That requires someone to build it, and AFAIK that's hasn't happened.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It already works pretty well if you just add Lemmy to the search.