Didn’t think about it before, but saw this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/26747873
Lemmy tends to have duplicate communities between different instances for many subjects, and this can make it hard to find information here. For instance, if i want to know if anyone has made a constructed language for birds, i have to go to the communities list and search for “conlang” and “constructed language”, open every relevant community i find, and search each of those.
The Lemmy search feature quite good, but having all the knowledge about one topic on one community makes it even better
There is a GitHub issue, but no planned deadline: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
In a perfect world where traffic and hosting costs didn’t matter it would be handy to integrate the lemmyverse results into lemmy instances when a local user searches for something. With an option to toggle it on/off from the admin panel you’d be able to cover federated and private instances that wanted local only search. I’m sure someone more technical than me could figure it out pretty easily, but that’s a lot of traffic to absorb for lemmyverse.net.