Yes but what if you search and find a post that doesn’t exist on your home instance? You’d be taken to a 404 page and can’t do anything.

But I’ve got an issue on GitHub for this. And just raised a PR on Lemmy to support the changes I need for this. But a reminder, once you can search all instances you may encounter 404s opening the posts that you find.

https://www.search-lemmy.com

You can do advanced filters on posts or communities. Feel free to provide feedback as well. I’m still working on the order of the results, etc…

Thank for sharing the results.

I can say one of the most requested features I keep getting requests for is a global search as well. I’m just blocked by a bug in Lemmy at the moment.

A tool to see better recommendations on who to follow could be interesting as well. I’ve recently added a new feature that allows for users to search communities (on Lemmy and Kbin) about what posts are actually talking about. I wonder if something similar could be built for users…

But again thanks for sharing.

Anyway I think we can build a search engine that can respect their wishes and keep them out of the index.

I’d love to hear your ideas on this. At least initially I don’t see a way to build a crawler that can ignore select individuals. But I haven’t really dug into the Mastodon APIs just yet.

1. Would you be able to share the results of the survey here once it’s complete?

I don’t run my own instance, at least not publicly, but I’m very curious in the answers to some of those questions and I don’t want to skew your results by voting.

2. Primarily I’m curious what feedback you get on search.

As I’m already working on on search engine, that’s already public for Lemmy but I hope to add Mastodon in the future. So far many Mastodon users seem to be very anti-search, so I’m curious of your results.

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.