Comment on YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine

Aatube@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Magiccupcake@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because lemmy search sucks. Its very specific, and usually the most relavant stuff is buried by tangetially related things.

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  • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it is still miles better than Reddit… But I can be wrong.

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• evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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