is there a search engine for the fediverse?

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• Pacrat173@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  fedi-search.com

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  • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you!

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• delightfuldude@lemmy.criticalbasics.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you tried searxng? Just switch them on in the settings: Image

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• Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The built-in search function works quite well I would say

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  • GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The fediverse has a built-in search engine?

    I can only comment on my experience searching for communities in lemmy and people to follow on mastadon, but in both cases I am not sure I’d say “works quite well” would describe my experience.

    But also that’s not what I think OP was talking about.

    They want a search engine for a random fact like google. It’s been long true that you need to add “reddit” to the end of any google search to find the info you needed.

    It’d be nice to have a fediverse alternative.

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    • Blaze@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can only comment on my experience searching for communities in lemmy and people to follow on mastadon, but in both cases I am not sure I’d say “works quite well” would describe my experience.

      For communities, lemmyverse.net/communities is probably better.

      I use the built-in search engine for posts, and usually the results are relevant and accurate

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  • halm@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, the single, shared built-in search function in mastodon, pixelfed, misskey, lemmy, friendica, peertube, diaspora, castopod, writefreely, &c?

    Please, the fediverse is more than [platform you’re currently using].

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The built-in search function works quite well I would say

    The UX is a bit funky, but the results are good.

    ~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~

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    • fossphi@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The disclaimer at the end of your comment doesn’t render properly. At least, on Thunder

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• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemmy search works pretty well on larger servers, and they’re indexed by major web search engines.

  The microblog side of things is worse, with Mastodon long having near-useless search because it might “encourage negative social dynamics” or some such. Some other software, such as Akkoma has had better search, and Mastodon has recently improved somewhat for accounts that opt into being searchable. Mastodon directs search engines not to index most pages.

  Some people get very upset about attempts to build general-purpose fediverse search tools.

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At times the mastodon people sound like Alex Jones, only it’s “techbros” instead of “globalists”

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    • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s a small, but very loud minority who have unrealistic expectations about how other people will use data they share in a manner that’s inherently rather public. I kind of see where they’re coming from, but ActivityPub with open federation doesn’t work that way.

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• ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kagi has a “Fediverse Forums” lens.

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• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your favourite search engine + “site:your-instance.net” should do okay hopefully?

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  • Anon518@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The point is to search the whole fediverse, not just one instance.

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• underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s also sepiasearch.org for PeerTube videos.

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• MinFapper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also Kagi has a fediverse lens

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• Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are various websites that catalog all the instances they can find, but I can’t remember the one I used back in the day an don’t know if they search communities too or just instances

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