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Anyone have good ways to search through lemmy posts? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by Azzu@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Perhaps I've missed a trick, it only searches for communities. I'm using Jerboa, the 'official' app.

There's no way to search for individual posts or comments.

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Should work just fine for posts and comments as well, for example, here's a search result containing your comment

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm being dim. This type of query can't cover instances that lemmee, in this case, isn't subscribed to, can it?

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

That's what I thought, phew!

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.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

Well I'll be damned. I will start trying this more.

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Gnorv@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Did you try Raccoon for Lemmy? I am using it now, and was an Infinity user some time ago.

[–] gigachad@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

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...

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I'll try it

[–] rasakaf679@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Do they maintain it? Has the same level of customisation?

[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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

Voyager (F-Droid)

Voyager - Github