The Issue Most of the time when I Googled something I ended up needing to add "site:reddit.com" to the end of my query to avoid the onslaught of AI-generated, SEO-optimized garbage that plagues the front page of search results. However with Reddit going down the enshittification route, I,

I saw someone post about FediSearch, its very helpful but a little inconvenient to have to switch search engines just for lemmy, so I implemented their search query directly into my browser with Chrome’s search shortcuts. Figured I’d write up a guide since this seems to be one thing a lot of y’all are missing from reddit, hope it’s helpful :D

(This works for Chrome but not Firefox - they don’t allow you to create custom search shortcuts.)

  • @marsara9
    1•1 year ago

    I’m working on something similar but sadly ya, it’ll be a different search engine/URL you’ll have to visit.

    My hope is, it’ll work similar to Google but never take you to Google, etc… But will work directly with your preferred instance. So that when you tap on a search result you’ll be taken to the post inside your instance that you’re already logged into. You’ll even be able to self-host it along side your instance as well, if you choose.

    The project is still private on GitHub at the moment but I’m aiming to open it up here in the next few weeks after I get the MVP up and going.