Because lemmy search sucks. Its very specific, and usually the most relavant stuff is buried by tangetially related things.
Comment on YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine
Aatube@kbin.social 11 months ago
Why not just use your instance’s search function?
Magiccupcake@startrek.website 11 months ago
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think it is still miles better than Reddit… But I can be wrong.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If they are anything like me, they are used to reddit search being hot garbage, so they prefer to use a search engine. I have no clue if lemmy search is any good
Spzi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
One reason might be: Each instance only has a partial knowledge of content in Lemmy. It can be unaware of certain communities on other instances, if your instance has not discovered them yet. Hence the need for all these meta-search tools.
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I dont know if can do a “fuzzy” search for me. Plus it may be showing my searches to the instance owner so ugh, dunno.