marsara9 @ marsara9 @lemmy.world

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You can also use https://www.search-lemmy.com

It's still relatively new so please raise bug reports on GitHub: https://www.github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

To search a specific community you can add a filter such as community:!fediverse@lemmy.world to the end of your query.

That's on my todo list. For the initial release I wanted to get posts working primarily.

See: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/blob/master/server/src/crawler/crawler.rs#L178

Assuming the fediverse becomes mainstream one thing I hope to actually see is that existing company forums start to join the fediverse.

Think if you no longer needed to login to EA's website to post about bugs to the Sims. Or if Prusa's 3d printer community forums could also be found right here... Or any other existing community help forum.

The problem though is, that in order to get there, Meta and others have to bring the users and essentially show the way first.

But the API is instance specific.

The only ways I see this working is one of:

1. You'd have to type in your instance name upon tapping the button
2. You could have a settings page that lets you set your instance name and then twitch (or whatever service you're using would store that along side your other user data)
3. It just assumes one of the most popular instances.

But without some central registry there's no way to know what is your home instance.

Edit: something like what Android does for Activities could work as well. But not sure how to handle that on a PC. ... In Android they could just start a generic Intent to view Lemmy and it could then launch whichever app you have installed to handle that intent.

Oh wanted to add, as a workaround for now you can set your home instance to lemmy.world or lemmy.ml. Because of how the fediverse works, searching the larger older instances should have a fairly complete copy of content.

Once I do "fix" this though, note that you may click on a link and get a 404 page. As that post may not be on your home instance.

One rule I will always follow for this project is that if I display a link, that link MUST take you to your home instance and that link MUST point to the post in question (but I cannot guarantee that you won't get an error, just that you won't be taken to a completely different post)

Eventually. I'm waiting on a bug in Lemmy itself to be fixed. Mainly once I can post a link to a post here and anyone can click on it without leaving their home instance.

Few questions:

Do you have anything you can show at the moment? Even a roadmap?, a kanban board? a GitHub page?

Any details on what the project actually is and the vision of what that is going to look like? What problems this is solving?

Is this a mobile only project? Or will there be a webpage? Do you already have designs in place or will contributors be able to exercise some creative control over the look and feel?

Is there a backend? Is it already complete? Is it just using rest APIs or some other pattern? Do you have documentation on how to connect to a QA or Test environment or how we can setup a test environment for ourselves?

Is this going to be a FOSS project or closed source?

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Not yet but I can add this feature

Thanks for that, fixing. But it should be lemmy-search.

Ya, now if everyone can stop finding bugs! So I can take some time off. /jk

Yes but that search doesn't take you to the instance that you are logged into already. Which is one of my main goals with this site. While that did give me the inspiration for this and has the power of Google behind it, it lacks knowledge about how the fediverse actually works.

I've already got some complaints about that. You can see one of the issues raised on GitHub.

At the moment, I'm only picking up mastodon posts that are federated to Lemmy, but you can't choose Mastodon as a preferred-instance, yet. When and/if I decide to add Mastodon support, I'll reach out to the admins over there to get feedback first.

Edit and note to any server admin: If you want to block the crawler from hitting your site, just add lemmy-search to your robots.txt and crawling will be prevented. But this doesn't stop cross-federation posts from being picked up on another instance.

I'm working on a specialized search engine just for the fediverse. https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

If anyone wants to help out, feel free to reach out, but I hope to have something ready to release soon.

The idea with my version is that it'll search as much of Lemmy / the fediverse as it can and you can select the preferred instance that you want to open any link with.

So I've been working on a solution for this.

As I see it Google and others are going to have a hard if not impossible time to incorporate the fediverse, and the fact that the same content can exist on multiple servers.

So I'm working on a search engine specifically build, for Lemmy at least. Where it'll take you to whatever your preferred instance is when tapping on a search result.

I hope to have a MVP up and running in a few more days.

Also, @hyper@lemmy.ml, what does your nginx.conf look like? Now that the webpage is loading, the backend might be blocked/not configured properly in nginx, so nginx isn't properly forwarding requests to the backend.