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eg: typing "linux @l" should search "linux lemmy" and "beatles @mb" should search "beatles musicbrainz",
where I define these shortcuts

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it is sadly not advertised. Even the "Keyword" box helper text isn't very obvious how it works. They should link to a help page.

Not to mention that they also have search engines which work in a very similar way, but have a different UI, are harder for users to manually define and don't sync across devices via Firefox Sync.

It's a big mess. But it works! So that is enough for me.