Hi, I'm relatively new here. Like probably a lot of people, I appended the word "reddit" to most of my searches to get discussions around my interests/news or to find "curated" things. I noticed that it does not work as great with "Lemmy" for example, as the user base is more spread out and smaller in general.

I've looked for a search engine for the Lemmy or fediverse with no luck. There exists some to find communities but not to return posts it seems.
If it does not exists, is this even something that can be built? Would one need to build a crawler or use an API? I would be very interested to contribute to such a project.

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[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Check out my post history.

But https://www.search-lemmy.com. It has a few bugs but it should work for you. Especially if you set your home instance to something large like Lemmy.world.

Edit: if you want to help contribute: https://www.github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

[–] MoonHawk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh wow thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for. I hope this gets used by all the community!