Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
you can search for communities on Jerboa (in the bottom bar, click the thing, that kinda looks like a hamburger menu)
I’m not sure if any other search is done as well, but it seems to be only communities
in the web frontend you can search for users, comments, communities,…
for lemmy.ml as example it would be this URL: https://lemmy.ml/search