If the instance you’re on is heavily connected with the rest of the network, you should be able to search in your home server to find things youre looking for
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I am used to google searching “[THING] site:reddit.com”
Might pick a few good representative instances on lemmy, mastodon, etc, then make a compound search:
site:lemmy.ml OR site:mastodon.social [thing]
then set up a search keyword like fs for it so you could type fs [thing]
This sounds reasonable. Hopefully comments are indexed in a way that Google still works. I've never heard of setting up a search keyword like that; looks kind of like a Unix alias. How do you do that?
I’ve never heard of setting up a search keyword like that; looks kind of like a Unix alias. How do you do that?
Depends on the browser. In FF it's part of a bookmark. In Chrom* it;s under search engines. more info
Right now I don't think there's anything of that sort. And I'm not sure if there ever will (or should) be one in the future.
The more Mastodon-y parts of fedi heavily look down on this sort of global search, as microblogging of that sort is generally a lot more personal compared to the community oriented focus of Lemmy/kbin. And it's going to be pretty difficult to handle that in a way that both parts of the fediverse will be happy about, without giving abuse tools to people in the more "channy" corners of fedi.