Sorry if this has been asked already, but I’m struggling with my google skills and fediverse right now

How should I approach googling if I want to look for answers in the fediverse?

With reddit, I just used “whatever i want to search reddit” and it would show results from reddit

What about now? “whatever i want fediverse”? “whatever i want lemmy kbin mastodon”?

  • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    I don’t mean to keep self promoting but: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

    It’s still a work in progress, but it’s going to be a search engine specifically built for Lemmy, and maybe eventually the entire fediverse.

    Idea is that you’ll be able to search just like you normally would in Google but

    1. the links it shows you would take you to your preferred instance
    2. it will search as many lemmy instances as it can find, so it won’t find anything outside of the fediverse.
    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝AEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I see you are looking for a name - if you search kbin too you are covering the threadiverse, so… WellVersed. Defined as:

      having a lot of knowledge about something

      Which you would be.

    • sab@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      I guess it would by definition have to look beyond Lemmy, as even content in Lemmy could originate from elsewhere?

      One name suggestion: Findi.
      Fediverse -> Findiverse -> Findi.

      It’s short, somewhat descriptive (Fedi is already used for the Fediverse), easy to remember, and doesn’t seem to be used by any other major project. :)

    • RCMaehl [Any]@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Is there a website up to use this search yet? I’d love to add it to my MSEdgeRedirect project as a selectable search engine for the upcoming 0.8 version!

      • marsara9@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Sadly not yet. I’m in desperate need of a fronted dev, as the HTML/Javascript needs some serious work. But if I can’t find someone soon I’ll see what I can get put together and get it up and running soon enough.

        • Oshka@kbin.social
          6·
          1 year ago

          Dev’s like you make this place work for some of us more technologically incapable people (me) so just want to say, thanks for the hard work!