It’s excruciatingly obnoxious to have to rely on third party sources for what should be a first-party feature.
Like, I select all and then search a query. “Oh no, nobody on your server used a third party service to find it, so you won’t see it here.”
Like, how short-sighted is that, really? If I search for a string in the ‘all’ servers, I should have a list of ‘all’ the servers containing that string.
It’s a really simple concept. Not sure why this post even has to be made, but I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to make these ‘features’ more intuitive.
You just explained why it wouldn’t work and wasn’t healthy if it did, then linked to a resource where it IS working and encouraged people to use it!
The OPs compliant would be easily handled by Instances adding Lemmy Explorer into their search function, or at least advertising it’s existence on their search page.