Lovable Sidekick to [email protected]English • edit-226 days agoYou'll know Lemmy has really caught on when search results for "Lemmy" are more about it than the Motorhead guy.message-square50fedilinkarrow-up1437
arrow-up1437message-squareYou'll know Lemmy has really caught on when search results for "Lemmy" are more about it than the Motorhead guy.Lovable Sidekick to [email protected]English • edit-226 days agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareLovable SidekickOPlinkfedilinkEnglish8•26 days agoThat’s my experience trying to find any specific subject matter on lemmy, google tries to relate it to Motorhead.
minus-squareskulblakalinkfedilink3•26 days agoI’ve had middling results using “Lemmy Fediverse” in search strings instead of just “Lemmy”. You still get a lot of Motorhead though.
minus-squareMadbrad200linkfedilink1•26 days agojust filter by your instance, e.g google thing_youre_interested_in site:sh.itjust.works
minus-squareMadbrad200linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-225 days agoare you guys just not aware you can filter by site? guitar site:lemmy.world
minus-squareLovable SidekickOPlinkfedilinkEnglish5•26 days agoI was actually completely unaware of that. Thanks!
minus-squareFonzie!linkfedilink1•edit-225 days agoThat doesn’t help with all the different Lemmy instances, but searching on a Lemmy instance does… Well, the search function is janky so it works kinda, but it searches a lot of Lemmy instances alright!
minus-squareMadbrad200linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-225 days agoIt should work fine. Filtering by one instance will show all Lemmy content. You can use a script to ensure you always land back on your instance.
That’s my experience trying to find any specific subject matter on lemmy, google tries to relate it to Motorhead.
I’ve had middling results using “Lemmy Fediverse” in search strings instead of just “Lemmy”. You still get a lot of Motorhead though.
just filter by your instance, e.g google
thing_youre_interested_in site:sh.itjust.worksare you guys just not aware you can filter by site?
guitar site:lemmy.worldI was actually completely unaware of that. Thanks!
That doesn’t help with all the different Lemmy instances, but searching on a Lemmy instance does… Well, the search function is janky so it works kinda, but it searches a lot of Lemmy instances alright!
It should work fine. Filtering by one instance will show all Lemmy content. You can use a script to ensure you always land back on your instance.