Ask Lemmy

The only reason it works for Reddit is because they have a singular domain name you can site search and the context engine is good enough to know you're requesting a site search of www.reddit.com. Adding "Lemmy" to your query doesn't help, but adding the URL to an instance does. Such as "thing I want to search Lemmy.World" actually results in hits on Lemmy.World and other instances directly linked to from it. You can do it with any instance you want. You could even add "site:URL" to make sure it's doing the right kind of search if it doesn't understand the context.

You can use kagi with the fediverse search function

site:lemmy.world It may not be great, but most content ends up there.

For anyone who doesnt know Lemmy, just want to say hes easy to get a bad first impression of.

He was really well respected by people in music and was a good soul.

Theres an good documentary on him i think was on netflix.

Also My favourite clip of him

Also fun fact, he was a roadie for Jimmy Hendrix

I just watched Last of Us (inspired by the game) featuring Pedro Pascal. Looks very similar to Lemmy.

Kagi (a paid search engine) has a "fediverse forums" filter option.

I just did some experimenting, and in duckduckgo.com at least, searches like this work quite well:

"Best CPU (site:lemm.ee OR site:lemmy.world OR site:lemmy.ca)"

Not exactly user friendly, but it's a starting point. At least two ways forward:

1. A browser plugin with a config page allowing you to select/deselect your favourite instances, and make a bang operator to suit: e.g. "!lemmy"

2. Petition search engines to do this themselves.

Motörhead ≠ Led Zeppelin

Reddit is all on one domain, so a search on that is a fairly simple thing to do. Lemmy is a lot of different inter-connected sites, most of which don't even contain "Lemmy" in their name, making it a much more difficult ask.

Can we en-mass (all 20 of us) suggest a !bang to DDG?

"-music" should mostly do the trick... unless you're looking for music.

Lemmy is god

@JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee isn't part of the point of ActivityPub to avoid vendor lockin/single point of billionaire enshittification? I read and interact with a fair amount of Lemmy content through an Mbin instance.

You can already limit Google using site:[DOMAIN].

If every ActivityPub driven service used a common TLD like .edus, you'd be able to limit results to that facet of Google's index, they don't. If they did, we'd be back to a single point of failure.

Google supports limiting searches to content using a Creative Commons license based on the licensing metadata in the URL. ActivityPub content already has the metadata, but it took a decade to generate enough content before Google offered the option to filter searches by CC-BY-SA... and Google was a VERY different company back then.

Who would win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or god?

Every aspect of this picture is cool