this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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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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[–] kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly I think proper search is one of the biggest things holding the fediverse back from mainstream adoption. It needs exposure, and it needs to be easy to find information and communities around obscure topics in order to really replace silos like reddit and facebook. I'm glad to see this exists, and I particularly like that it supports kagi.

Edit: Maybe this should have been obvious when seeing that it uses other search providers as a backend, but all it does is pass a list of fedi websites to filter results for. That's... not a proper search. It's a potentially useful tool, but it's not doing any of its own aggregation and more importantly the list of websites is also painfully small. Color me disappointed.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow. It even supports Kagi. That’s neat!

[–] pjusk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Started using Kago to its full extent this month and its by far the best investment I'm paying for monthly. Its such a breeze to use!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

with a hyphen in the name? No. Stop. Go back. Do it again.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Just get the non-hyphened domain and point to it.

[–] FundMECFS@quokk.au 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooo this is cool.

I hope they add support for Nodebb and Qwant.

[–] 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).

[–] 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

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] liaizon@social.wake.st 1 points 1 day ago

@AbnormalHumanBeing wow this is great, I hadn't heard of it!