this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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In the past, we would type something like site:reddit.com into a search engine to get to the resource we needed. In the meantime, I have already found a few useful tips on Lemmy instances by using the Lemmy search. But since all Lemmy instances are named differently, a simple site:lemmy won't work well in a search engine.

Do you see a solution for this? Or do we leave this to the search providers to figure out?

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[โ€“] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

You can append (intext:"modlog" & "instances" & "docs" & "code" & "join lemmy") to your search query to search through all Lemmy instances.

People are already working on unified search tool, it's not really hard as all you need is a list of instances and and a way to index them.

Ooh that's a neat way to work around this.

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