To see the original discussion, you can see this thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/8488573
To open the post on your instance you can go to [email protected] and see the recent top posts, or use an app/frontend/ browser extension (ex. [email protected])
Alternatively, here is the screenshot from the post.
I also wanted to share this tip for how you can filter for Lemmy posts when searching:
- Search using
site:home_instance. So if I wanted to find recommended phones, I could gosite:lemmy.ca recommended phones. Since every instance has its own collection of posts, you will be getting results from all over Lemmy. The limitation is that you won’t see content from instances that aren’t federated with yours, but you probably didn’t want to see that stuff anyway since you picked your instance for a reason. You can also put any instance into the search if you wanted different results.
Question to everyone, what does Lemmy need to make it easier for people to find content? What are the implications of the Fediverse on how people might find content in the future?
One thing is that people are more likely to get posts from the larger instances, likely because more people are linking to them and opening those links? Another thought was the common complaint about how our post links aren’t community specific. While I can search for posts using the method above, I can’t search within a specific community like I can with Reddit (ex. I can’t search site:lemmy.ca/c/Vancouver recommended restaurants
EDIT: The issues for it are here, looks like the devs are good with it now and someone just needs to implement it:
I use duckduckgo and lately have been adding Lemmy at the beginning (like I did Reddit) and it really works. Search results come back if there is a discussion going on about the topic.
I’ve not tinkered around with it too much yet, but how has your experience been with actually viewing the results? I would imagine that most results are statically likely to be for an instance other than the one you have an account on, requiring a few extra steps to load the post in your home instance if you wanted to vote/comment on it.
This is one of those UX things that I think is still holding Lemmy back from more mainstream adoption, imo.
It’s hit and miss most of the time. I just tried Lemmy memes and it redirects to lemmy.ml and the memes community.
Then I tried Lemmy how do I wash my kitten and there was an answer. Again for Lemmy ml. I think it depends on whether there is a post answering the question and if people commented on it.
You can make that a bit less painful with browser extensions. ‘Instance Assistant for Lemmy & kbin’, for example, will always show a button to open a page in your home server. Not sure if there’s anything exactly like it here yet but FediAct for Mastodon lets you like/boost/follow/comment on other servers directly, more or less eliminating the other-servers problem.