I assume msocial only searches mastodon.social?

Very cool, I didn't know they added !msocial.

Seems it only searches tags, which seems appropriate for Mastodon.

I feel like there is a huge difference in expectations of discoverability with this UI versus Mastodon, which makes full text search a non-question here whereas on Mastodon it was a (often ill-informed but well-intentioned) argument about privacy.

On Mastodon you can opt-in to have your posts indexed by Google, hopefully kbin/lemmy can rely on DDG or Google to do the full-text search for us with a flag on robots...?

If you use firefox, you can use extensions to add any lemmy instances as a search engine options. Then, simply add an @ shortcut to the lemmy search engine options, and you'll have the ddg equivalent of bangs in your firefox search bar.

Firefox does allow you to change search engine straight from the search bar by typing @ shortcut. An example of this by default, typing @ddg on firefox makes you search with duckduckgo instead of your default search engine.

Keep in mind that you have to type the shortcut on the searchbar first, before typing anything else.

Being able to easily search the entire fediverse woule be amazing.

There's a silver lining here. It will prompt people to search from their instance instead of giving more traffic to Google.

OP is sharing a very useful tip for people new to the Fediverse. Let's not allow our pedantry to get in the way of what is still a helpful tip please.

Sorry, working example would be:

-site:lemmy.lm

Sorry,

correct example might have been -site:lemmy.lm -site:lemmy.ml

@edit: corrected domain thank You @toki@lemmy.world

Someperson shall createth a copypasta of these terms of search that shall be needed to search on ALL of the kingdom of lemmy and associates. Until then let us pray that answered questions and questioned answers shall not disappear in the never ending greatness that is lemmy, as information shall be needed as needed shall be information!

Also lemm.ee

On DuckDuckGo you can use:

!g site: lemmy.*

to be redirected to an anonymous Google search

Finding answers about Lemmy is an easy, 3 step process:

1. Enter search query, followed by Lemmy
2. Exasperated sigh, because apparently I haven't learned my lesson
3. Enter search query followed by "Lemmy -motorhead"

Sorry missed that in preview

@Kichae@kbin.social pointed out here why it may not really matter too much. As long as everything is pretty well cross pollinated, things should be discoverable. I imagine the bigger the user base the better it will be.

Also won't work for kbin.social.

probably. So you could add it as a site search string; such as: site:lemmy.* OR site:kbin.social -site:beehaw.org cats

Yes and no. It won't search kbin.social directly, but federation works via mirroring content, so any posts that have reached the site being searched will, well, be on the site being searched.