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TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines (fedi-search.com)
submitted 1 day ago by AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Learned about it thanks to the Fireside Fedi Podcast. Might just end up becoming a new way to find solutions/perspectives by real people, just as looking for reddit results has been in the past for many people.

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[โ€“] Botzo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looking at the very short script that powers the site, adding additional search engines is trivial (though at some point will make refactoring obligatory).

[โ€“] MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Just provide a way to self host searx instance and then provide nightly backups of the DB so you don't have to run the crawler