Kagi has an option to search the Fediverse. This makes it a lot easier than specifying a site in the search query, which would also limit the results to a specific instance.
Why YSK: This lets you easily replace searches like “some topic reddit” with Lemmy!
Just yesterday I cancel d my Kagi subscription because it is based in the US. I liked it though, for the few years I’ve used it. Also a lot of good progress going on.
I switched to Qwant as it is European.
Cool! I’ve been looking at kagi for a long while but hadn’t bit the bullet due to the cost. They did a month free trial thing recently and I’ve been using it since and it’s been really nice. Think I’ll stick with it.
I really like the ability to make custom lenses (like predefined groups of sites to search) and a built in way to block sites or change their priority in listings. Can do that to Google with extensions like ublacklist, but this way I don’t need to export my settings to other devices.
I want to like Kagi but their partnerships with Brave and Yandex turned me away
The idea of searching had me thinking that it would be nice to have a search-focused instance that didn’t defederate from any sites (besides the illegal stuff) and auto-subscribes to every new community so it has all the information possible. Then you could do “foo bar site:searchlemmy.com” and get an effect similar to reddit
Although that’s probably unnecessary. But would be kind of cool
besides the illegal stuff
That’s a slippery slope. Illegal in which country?
Something you (or I) may find perfectly fine could be heavily pushed back against and illegal in another legal framework.
Look at how abortion / LGBTQ+ rights / gun ownership / personal drug use etc etc etc change country to country.
That sounds like a pretty good idea, since most search engines don’t play very well with the fediverse. Could be a good workaround. I’m wondering how expensive it would be to host something like that. Maybe someone with experience hosting instances could give an estimate?
