Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoYou'll know Lemmy has really caught on when search results for "Lemmy" are more about it than the Motorhead guy.message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1439arrow-down16
arrow-up1433arrow-down1message-squareYou'll know Lemmy has really caught on when search results for "Lemmy" are more about it than the Motorhead guy.Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareLovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoThat’s my experience trying to find any specific subject matter on lemmy, google tries to relate it to Motorhead.
minus-squareMadbrad200@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 month agoare you guys just not aware you can filter by site? guitar site:lemmy.world
minus-squareLovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI was actually completely unaware of that. Thanks!
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agoThat doesn’t help with all the different Lemmy instances, but searching on a Lemmy instance does… Well, the search function is janky so it works kinda, but it searches a lot of Lemmy instances alright!
minus-squareMadbrad200@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoIt should work fine. Filtering by one instance will show all Lemmy content. You can use a script to ensure you always land back on your instance.
minus-squareskulblaka@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoI’ve had middling results using “Lemmy Fediverse” in search strings instead of just “Lemmy”. You still get a lot of Motorhead though.
minus-squareMadbrad200@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agojust filter by your instance, e.g google thing_youre_interested_in site:sh.itjust.works
That’s my experience trying to find any specific subject matter on lemmy, google tries to relate it to Motorhead.
are you guys just not aware you can filter by site?
guitar site:lemmy.worldI was actually completely unaware of that. Thanks!
That doesn’t help with all the different Lemmy instances, but searching on a Lemmy instance does… Well, the search function is janky so it works kinda, but it searches a lot of Lemmy instances alright!
It should work fine. Filtering by one instance will show all Lemmy content. You can use a script to ensure you always land back on your instance.
I’ve had middling results using “Lemmy Fediverse” in search strings instead of just “Lemmy”. You still get a lot of Motorhead though.
just filter by your instance, e.g google
thing_youre_interested_in site:sh.itjust.works