Hello all. Like many new users, I am a reddit refugee. Please forgive me if this isn’t the best community for my question; I am still learning my way around here.

I am used to google searching “[THING] site:reddit.com” when I want to see the opinions of real people on a topic rather than the flood of clickbait articles you get nowadays with Google.

What is the best way to execute this type of search within the Fediverse rather than Reddit?

  • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev
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    1 year ago

    In the same vein as dedicated forums, discoverability is harder, and that’s sadly just the nature of the beast.

    One day someone may create a full indexer and scraper, but it’s still too early for that.

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      1 year ago

      There are 2 indexers. The community browser and lemmy.directory. The former is a searchable list of all communities in the federation, and the second one is a Lemmy instance with sign-up disabled so that his server doesn’t explode that auto-subscribes to every community it sees.