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How to effectively search the Fediverse? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by am0@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Hello all. Like many new users, I am a reddit refugee. Please forgive me if this isn't the best community for my question; I am still learning my way around here.

I am used to google searching "[THING] site:reddit.com" when I want to see the opinions of real people on a topic rather than the flood of clickbait articles you get nowadays with Google.

What is the best way to execute this type of search within the Fediverse rather than Reddit?

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[–] Veraticus@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m used to this too.

I want to think it’s actually an anti-pattern; as we are seeing many Reddit people are deleting their accounts so searching Reddit might be less useful in the future.

Not sure what the alternative is though. Some of the communities I participate in went to Discord instead but that has search problems as well.

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I find Discord extremely chaotic and disorienting for searching and referencing old information. I despise this trend of moving all types of discussion to Discord.