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How is the search functionality in Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by nobloat@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The way I use reddit is usually for recommendations, reviews, technical problems, etc. One main way to do this is to search a subreddit or all of reddit to see if the answer is already there. Is there a way to have a similar search on Lemmy ? I can't seem to get this to work. It only searches for communities and not posts within them.

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[–] psudo@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not super obvious, but if you set the communities to All in the search function it should search everything your instance is federated with

[–] nobloat@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Oh that's cool. I should have specified that I was trying to do this on Jerboa. I hope that apps will implement the search functionality as well.