One of the best things about reddit was looking for answers or other users with the same problem as you, and since Google didn’t really help with that anymore and instead insisted on giving you business results, the best practice was to put your search terms in followed by ‘reddit’ and you’d find your answer.
Yes, but Google annoyingly “corrects” every feddit.* searchterm to reddit
I don’t know about others but I used to just add “reddit” to each of my searches. Wouldn’t adding “Lemmy” instead do the same thing eventually?
The problem is I don’t know if it would pull instances that don’t contain Lemmy in the name.
As a newcomer, I’ve visited 3 Lemmy sites: Beehaw. Lemmy.world, and a custom instance. I noticed that they each have page footers that contain: Join Lemmy. If the same is true of many Lemmy instances, I can add Lemmy (or, with quotation marks, “Join Lemmy”) in a Google query. — (Note: Top matches might not always be best matches on the originating instance, or sometimes the best matches might be hidden until I click “repeat the search with the omitted results included.” And of course sometimes I won’t get any match because the target hasn’t been indexed by Google.)
Adding “join lemmy” is really smart.
Why are people using a site named after the place they purposefully left with just one letter changed?
Presumably because reddit itself has a lot of positivity and memories attached to it for a lot of people - it wasn’t the site that people wanted to leave, but rather the ceo and staff behind it.