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How does search work? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lewistrick@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If I use the search option, what happens? Do the results of the search differ depending on which instance I am, which communities I join, and which app I run to view Lemmy? Are only community names searched, or also posts, comments or usernames?

I'm using Jerboa for Android and my instance is feddit.nl btw.

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[–] whiny9130@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

folks talked about "you should be able to search by !communityname@instance.name" not working, even if the community /is/ already federated and sharing content (think !technology@beehaw.org) - so there's definitely growing pains.

[–] em2@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely. I tried adding some communities from programming.dev and managed to find and sub to one by pasting the entire URL and searching for it a few times. When I tried another community, no dice.