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.)

  • ekZepp
    2•1 year ago

    I did a couple of test and it didn’t give me any useful results, and I’m subscribed to many group who use the keyword in their name.

    For now I think that lemmy internal search is way better.

    • @JozzoOP
      1•1 year ago

      Yeah it’s no replacement for “site:reddit.com”, but it could be due to there not being that much content on Lemmy at the moment.

      When searching for single words (I tested with “jellyfin” and “dnd”) I can find results no problem, but the more specific queries that I would previously do with reddit (eg. “dnd point buy”) turn up nothing useful.

      • ekZepp
        1•1 year ago

        I mean lemmy internal search. Anyway evrething is moving so fast, i’ll test it again in a couple days.