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.

http://kagi.com/

Why YSK: This lets you easily replace searches like “some topic reddit” with Lemmy!

    • beanslink@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yes. Its 10 bucks a month though for it to be useful. There is a 5 bucks plan but its limited to only 300 searches.

        • Revanee@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          11 hours ago

          You need to sign in to use it. Other than that, the results are more relevant and customizable. You can try it for free when you make a new account.

  • NotNotMike@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    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

    • Technoworcester@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

    • Revanee@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      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?

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      I like lemm.ee is as close as you can get. AFAIK it’s federated with pretty much everyone and it’s got a very large userbase so nearly every conmunity is federated.

      • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Wait, a large userbase is required for an instance to federate with every community? I thought you could host a single user instance but still be federated with everything that you don’t explicitly block.

        • can@sh.itjust.works
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          4 days ago

          Remote communities don’t federate until a user subscribed to them. There is this tool to automate it however.

          When you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. To make it accessible to other instances, at least one user from each remote instance must follow it.

          This tool automates this process by following your community from all remote instances until it gains at least one real-user follower.

  • Starayo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    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.