I’ve been trying to find any information on this at all without luck. 3rd party search engines like Google and DDG still don’t have much of Lemmy indexed, and the built in search seems to just grab everything whether it matches the search or not. Is there search parameters you can use like Reddit’s “title:” or “flair:”, or some other way to effectively search?
I use the Voyager app on Android and the search function is great.
Yeah it’s great on Voyager UNLESS you’re searching for other instances.
What do you mean by searching for other instances?
You can browse any instance as a guest. Not sure it that’s what you mean!
How?
Try to login to any instance and submit with blank username/password.
Alternatively, (bit more complicated but provides a nice interface to browse) you can select an instance in the signup flow, and press the
(...)icon in the header to “connect as guest”I can search for a community and interact with it, even if it’s on another instance, but I can’t browse that instance in-app. At least I haven’t found a way yet.
hmm, I don’t think Lemmy’s API allows for filtering communities by instance. That would be a really cool feature though!
Edit I found this open issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1298
I guess what I’m after is a Local page for another instance.
Oh it would be cool to see filter by instance for the getPosts endpoint too!
Oh, interesting. I’ll have to keep an eye on that. Normally I use search to find things I’ve already read and I’m trying to find again.
IMHO the search engine built in Lemmy is pretty good, despite the client you use… It is better than Reddit’s at least.