Sorry if this has been asked already, but I'm struggling with my google skills and fediverse right now
How should I approach googling if I want to look for answers in the fediverse?
With reddit, I just used "whatever i want to search reddit" and it would show results from reddit
What about now? "whatever i want fediverse"? "whatever i want lemmy kbin mastodon"?
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marsara9@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 3y
I don't mean to keep self promoting but: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search
It's still a work in progress, but it's going to be a search engine specifically built for Lemmy, and maybe eventually the entire fediverse.
Idea is that you'll be able to search just like you normally would in Google but
Emperor@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 3y
I see you are looking for a name - if you search kbin too you are covering the threadiverse, so... WellVersed. Defined as:
Which you would be.
rcmaehl@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Is there a website up to use this search yet? I'd love to add it to my MSEdgeRedirect project as a selectable search engine for the upcoming 0.8 version!
marsara9@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 3y
Sadly not yet. I'm in desperate need of a fronted dev, as the HTML/Javascript needs some serious work. But if I can't find someone soon I'll see what I can get put together and get it up and running soon enough.
Oshka@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y
Dev's like you make this place work for some of us more technologically incapable people (me) so just want to say, thanks for the hard work!
sab@kbin.social · 10 pts · 3y
I guess it would by definition have to look beyond Lemmy, as even content in Lemmy could originate from elsewhere?
One name suggestion: Findi.
Fediverse -> Findiverse -> Findi.
It's short, somewhat descriptive (Fedi is already used for the Fediverse), easy to remember, and doesn't seem to be used by any other major project. :)
riktor@kbin.social · 9 pts · 3y
Thank you for your work, this will be huge!
Vagabond@kbin.social · 9 pts · 3y
Thank god you asked this. It's been like pulling teeth trying to get google to show anything on any fediverse instance
genoxidedev1@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y
fedi-search.com. Perchance.
BLAMM@kbin.run · 3 pts · 3y
-1 You can't just say perchance.
Emperor@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 3y
Forsooth!
AlataOrange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Verily !!
olorin99@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
gsfraley@vlemmy.net · 7 pts · 3y
I think if you want specifically fediverse answers those are the way to go, but I've had a lot of luck with just adding "forum" on the end of stuff. Seems to give an even split between bulletin forums, Reddit/Twitter, and blogs for any given subject matter.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
I would probably add either "lemmy" or 'kbin" or both. Not ideal but hey...
yoichi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
All my Google searches for niche questions ended with "reddit" so I'm sure it'll be fine
Cloudless@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
You can search by site using the "site" operator, for example:
"whatever you want site:lemmy.world"
All the results will be from/via the lemmy.world instance.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Google has always been pretty terrible at ranking websites that haven't been around for a while. They are absolutely already indexing every post, they just aren't ranking high enough.
Google will fix it, hopefully sooner rather than later.