With reddit you could just add “reddit” or “site:reddit.com” to redirect google searches to reddit, but with lemmy it doesn’t seem to work. Is there a way to search useful information on Lemmy?
I just found a post on the Fediverse community, it shows a new search engine designed to replace google’s “site:reddit.com” search query. Hope it will work.
Here’s a post exactly for you:
Right now the best way is to search from inside a lemmy instance itself. lemmy search finds much better results than what native reddit search used to give.
https://fedi-search.com is pretty great
Give https://fedi-search.com/ a try.
I searched “musk lemmy”, ignoring the top results I got decent (considering the ages of the posts) results on Bing and Google.
I’ve noticed that lemmy is full of discussions about Twitter and Reddit, so that’s probably the reason these kind of posts show up, but with niche topics it’s a lot harder to find something. I’ve tried searching, even with the lemmy search engine, a post I made on c/Android using generic words, but I couldn’t find anything at all.
Re: niche topics, it’s going to be people building from the ground up. There’s probably nothing there, because SO MANY PEOPLE have been invested in reddit for so long. Sad.
So much money to be made if they had listened to me, Mr. Weirdo Fingers.
Unfortunatly tons of data are still on reddit and I think it will be hard to recover them. There are some people who scrapped terabytes of posts and comments from Reddit so I hope they will be of some use in the future. Anyways, I should try finding more niche communities and engage with them
You betcha all that archived content is valuable. It’s already happening on Lemmy with bots. But not in a way that makes sense. they’re pretending engagement.
