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How to effectively search the Fediverse? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello all. Like many new users, I am a reddit refugee. Please forgive me if this isn't the best community for my question; I am still learning my way around here.

I am used to google searching "[THING] site:reddit.com" when I want to see the opinions of real people on a topic rather than the flood of clickbait articles you get nowadays with Google.

What is the best way to execute this type of search within the Fediverse rather than Reddit?

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[–] Barbarian 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are 2 indexers. The community browser and lemmy.directory. The former is a searchable list of all communities in the federation, and the second one is a Lemmy instance with sign-up disabled so that his server doesn't explode that auto-subscribes to every community it sees.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring back web rings!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was gonna say, I'm getting Geocities webring vibes. Not sure how I feel about that haha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shoot I'm going to have to bring back my Alicia Silverstone site. It killed on the old banner exchanges.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sadly I don't even remember what my site was called so I can't resurrect it