cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1605286

I keep see people complaining about not being able to find active communities that match their interests. So I’ve added a new feature to https://www.search-lemmy.com/ that allows you to search posts for a particular topic and then it tells you which communities have the most posts matching your search query.

And assuming that you’ve set your home instance correctly, those links will even open up in your home instance, so that you can subscribe directly to them.

For example, if you search for ‘linux’ (https://www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?query=linux&page=1) it gives you a link to each community, tells you which instance it’s on and how many matches it found for your query.

All of the same filters that you can use on the normal search can be used here as well. So if you just want to find the best community that mentions linux on lemmy.world (https://www.search-lemmy.com/find-communities/results?query=linux+instance%3Alemmy.world&page=1), you can filter by just that instance. Click on the Search Tips button to see a list of all of the available filters.

P.S. I’m aware of https://lemmyverse.net/ etc… and while those are great as well, this allows you to search to see what people are actually talking about on the various communities.

Again, if you have any feature requests or find any bugs, PLEASE reach out or ideally go to my github (https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search) and log a bug there.

  • Treevan 🇦🇺OPEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    A good way to find communities based on their relevance to your search terms.

    For the content creators, the tool takes the body of the post into account so submission statements or summaries help increase the ranking in the search results.

    • maniacalmanicmaniaEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m confused. The search seems to be limited to single instances using the dropdown. Am I missing something?

        • Treevan 🇦🇺OPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Selecting a large instance and searching from there would be beneficial?

          When your tool was new, it only had a few and using lemmy.world was what I did.

      • Treevan 🇦🇺OPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That just opens all the links in the instance you put in there so you can subscribe if needed.

        If you want to search an instance specifically, use the Tips to see the modifier needed.

        To search communities, click the button at top right.

  • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m looking for a community similar to reddit’s r/moviescirclejerk I tried search-lemmy.com, but haven’t found anything like it. I am unsure if something like it exists yet on lemmy.