As an example: I was doing a search for the best sesame substitute today. Everything that came up was things like, “11 Best Sesame Substitutes,” and I know for a fact that just about everything they suggested tastes nothing like sesame. Just another site trying to get hits. So I added reddit.com into my search parameters and immediately got some decent answers.
I really hate that I have to do that to get anything useful, but there is a ridiculous amount of useful information on Reddit. I hope the fediverse gets to this point as well one day.
Anway, just needed to vent. Lemmy on.
Is there a way to do a web search on the whole fediverse?
With the way federation works it will take some doing, and knowledge of various sites names, but you can do this by adding “source: sitename” to your search
Fediverse is uniquely difficult to do this with though, as traffic is (relatively) low per individual site and you’ll need various names
The only things i have found that offer decent search is Lemmy-go https:github.comRaicuparta/lemmy-go/ and Instance assistant
https://lemmy.ca/post/4547927 but they don’t cover the whole fediverse.