Yep. I was using ddg but just spun up 2 sear instances for myself. (One on vpn one off)

What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

Duckduckgo is bing. They route their searches there afaik. It’s just a privacy layer, like startpage is a privacy layer on Google.

I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

I’m unsure. I use jerboa, maybe it’s that. But search doesn’t really search the content of posts. I.e. how I can google something, include reddit in the search terms, and find a relevant post(s)

Now. Fuck google, but I want to be able to do the equivalent with Lemmy posts.

Discord is the worst. The siloing of tons of information that should be publicly searchable and accessible via a public forum, but instead it’s siloed off into this closed wall with shitty search.

I actually wish Lemmy was better searchable as well. I think Lemmy could be way better and drive adoption if it had a cross instance search engine / indexer.