Lovable Sidekick to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-213 days agoYou'll know Lemmy has really caught on when search results for "Lemmy" are more about it than the Motorhead guy.message-square49fedilinkarrow-up1436arrow-down17
arrow-up1429arrow-down1message-squareYou'll know Lemmy has really caught on when search results for "Lemmy" are more about it than the Motorhead guy.Lovable Sidekick to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-213 days agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareLovable SidekickOPlinkfedilinkEnglish8•13 days agoThat’s my experience trying to find any specific subject matter on lemmy, google tries to relate it to Motorhead.
minus-squareMadbrad200linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-212 days agoare you guys just not aware you can filter by site? guitar site:lemmy.world
minus-squareLovable SidekickOPlinkfedilinkEnglish5•13 days agoI was actually completely unaware of that. Thanks!
minus-squareFonzie!linkfedilink1•edit-212 days 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-squareMadbrad200linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-212 days 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-squareskulblakalinkfedilink3•13 days agoI’ve had middling results using “Lemmy Fediverse” in search strings instead of just “Lemmy”. You still get a lot of Motorhead though.
minus-squareMadbrad200linkfedilink1•13 days 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