I think using Lemmy’s own search engine provides all the results that you need and the stuff you’re looking for in all instances rather than using a different engine in my experience.
Yes, with a major caveat. An instance will search only communities that at least one user on the instance is subscribed to and only as far back as the time the first user on the instance subscribed to the community.
Whoever is in charge of discuss.tchncs.de has converted the community search into a lemmy content search
oh, so that isn’t how it is supposed to be? I was wondering how to search for communities, this is the only Lemmy instance I have ever used, maybe I should pick a different one?
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That’s interesting that lemmy doesn’t generate canonicals. I would have thought that the original instance something is posted on would set the canonical, and other instances can point back to that - it really seems like this sort of problem is exactly what canonicals are made for. Does anyone know if there’s a reason for not using them (other than dev time, which is 100% a good reason)?
