Anyone have good ways to search through lemmy posts?
Neither DuckDuckGo nor Google are particularly good at it, since you can't do something like site:reddit.com. How do you guye search or is this just an unsolved problem?
You can self-host Lemmy-Search, it's probably the best option right now. Unfortunately their official instance is down, what a shame that no one else is hosting a public instance.
Search every lemmy instance:
You can append (intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy") to your search query to search through all Lemmy instances. Works with Google, Startpage, SearX.
Google smacks your SEO rating if you have the same content as other websites. The fediverse will face this problem for a while until search engines find a solution to it.
The default web UI search utils are very strong though. If you know content is on Lemmy, you can search by post type/author/instance/etc and find it quite fast.
That's true, it will only show content which has been federated to lemm.ee, so indeed if you want to search for more content than is available on your instance, you would need some additional tools for that.
Global searches for things is how I discovered subreddits that are my topic of interest but are called - for me anyway - unusual names! I can't expect any one instance to carry all of Lemmy so I was asking about a search engine.
That said, your search method is probably much better than what I'm doing now! Thank-you.
I use the Eternity client from F-Droid just for searching. It has extensive filtering support. It's very sad that it lacks maintainership, this fork of Infinity for Reddit finally got me to migrate from reddit during the exodus. It still works though and the search is wonderful.
I tried out Raccoon for a while, but I always accidentally up or downvoted posts while scrolling because it was super sensitive. So I switched back to Eternity (Nightly). But it may be fixed in the meantime...
Voyager searches posts & communities. Looks like an iOS app (not surprising given its lineage) which a few months in is still taking some getting used to but its been a good replacement for the no longer developed Liftoff. Definitely worth trying