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Most Effective way to search the Threadiverse?

Say I have a link to an article or a title of an article. I wanna see if it’s already been posted somewhere.

The piefed or lemmy search bars are a little hit or miss. Is there anything better?

4 comments

  • Try using your PieFed account via Voyager:
    https://vger.app/search

    Somehow it is able to find results I couldn't directly with PieFed.

  • This isn't exactly what you asked for but:

    When you paste the url into the url field, PieFed does a search for you to see if the url has been posted already. If you don't see a warning, proceed.

  • I'd try finding a community to where I'd like to post a given article, and look for its posts in the OG instance as well as in instances I have accounts on for other engines (the 3 major thread-oriented ones I know about are Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed). Other than that, of retarded/delayed results but still something I'd recommend, is to follow people in other instances (Mbin / microblogging / Peertube thing), and interact with everything the user finds so posts can propagate across instances, so at least in future searches, others, or even yourself, may find/refind posts more easily.

  • Lemmy UI shows you all the other posts it's aware of once you paste the title; or apply a suggested title after pasting the link.