For searching instances and communities, you can use lemmyverse.net. It’s a bit obnoxious to have an external service for that, but they have done a good job of filling a hole in community search, I think.
For comment search…yeah.
Reddit was infamous for having a useless search engine for many years, until people just started doing site:reddit.com searches with Google.
Google doesn’t, as far as I know, have a good way to search all Threadiverse sites.
Kagis specifically indexes the Threadiverse, has a search lens, and can assign something like !tv or similar to do so.
I don’t know what the status on other search engines is. Might be that some other engine has since added support.
There’s no native full-text search in the UI (and an individual instance doesn’t even see all of the comments made, so it cannot index them for full-text search).
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For searching instances and communities, you can use lemmyverse.net. It’s a bit obnoxious to have an external service for that, but they have done a good job of filling a hole in community search, I think.
For comment search…yeah.
Reddit was infamous for having a useless search engine for many years, until people just started doing
site:reddit.comsearches with Google.Google doesn’t, as far as I know, have a good way to search all Threadiverse sites.
Kagis specifically indexes the Threadiverse, has a search lens, and can assign something like
!tvor similar to do so.I don’t know what the status on other search engines is. Might be that some other engine has since added support.
There’s no native full-text search in the UI (and an individual instance doesn’t even see all of the comments made, so it cannot index them for full-text search).