How can I search posts and comments on Lemmy?

Am doing something wrong or does that functionality not exist yet? I would love to search posts and comments using search terms. It would greatly help to discover content.

15 points · 9 comments · view on lemmy.world

9 Comments

_MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Could you please paraphrase your post title as a question? It's rule #1.

greensky@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

I did, thanks for pointing it out.

dromicieomimus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

on mobile browser tap the hamburger menu on the top right. in that menu you should see a magnifying glass, tap it. that should open search, which has a drop-down to select between comments, posts, etc. you can also select to search subscribed/local/all

greensky@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Thank you so much!

BrikoX@vlemmy.net · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

instance.com/search should work. You can also specify search type to be just posts or just comments. Keep in mind that it will only search the posts/comments from communites your instance is linked with (aka at least one person has search for it).

greensky@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

I was searching on Jerboa. It looks like it doesn't have that feature yet. I thought Lemmy itself didn't have that feature.

codus@leby.dev · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I just tried a search on your instance and it looked like it worked.

Do you see results here?

https://sh.itjust.works/search/q/Test/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

greensky@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

I do, thanks!