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 comment search engine for many years, until people just started doing site:reddit.com searches with Google. Like, Google partnering with Reddit had a site famous for great content and terrible searching of it (to the point that one used Google to get by) meeting up with a search engine that had great search but indexed a lot of garbage (to the point that one would specifically do site searches on Reddit to get useful information). Even aside from AI training, I can see why they partnered, my own apprehensions about the anti-competitive aspect aside.
Google doesn’t, as far as I know, have a good way to search all Threadiverse sites.
Kagi specifically indexes the Threadiverse, has a search lens for it, 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).
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 comment search engine for many years, until people just started doing
site:reddit.comsearches with Google. Like, Google partnering with Reddit had a site famous for great content and terrible searching of it (to the point that one used Google to get by) meeting up with a search engine that had great search but indexed a lot of garbage (to the point that one would specifically do site searches on Reddit to get useful information). Even aside from AI training, I can see why they partnered, my own apprehensions about the anti-competitive aspect aside.Google doesn’t, as far as I know, have a good way to search all Threadiverse sites.
Kagi specifically indexes the Threadiverse, has a search lens for it, 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).