Easily search the fediverse in your preferred search engine



But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Romans 6:17-18

We're both ace, so pretty much the things you'd expect, tying up or harnessing, teasing, etc. Just cuddles instead of anything sexual

Me and my platonic sub can confirm :3

Good point - I usually keep two weeks of daily backups just in case

To add to this, if you have the storage then a solution like Macrium Reflect (or a FOSS alternative) is a great option too. I let my PC back itself up every morning before I wake up, then if something happens to it (virus, broken driver, bad install, etc.), I can just revert it to the state it was in earlier that morning using a recovery drive.
Windows Defender has also gotten pretty good over the past couple years - features like controlled folder access will protect sensitive data from ransomware (I just use it on my backup folder). The combination of the two has been plenty for me to deal with viruses or broken programs - I haven't had to run a clean install of Windows in 4 years.

Bruh I'm 18 and I used these as a kid lol

Oh huh, TIL. I had always assumed they were all webkit just due to the amount of compatibility code I've had to implement in CSS with -webkit
styles. It makes sense that a fork like Blink would be backwards compatible with those though

Chromium and its forks actually all use WebKit as well: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/displaying-a-web-page-in-chrome/
WebKit: Rendering engine shared between Safari, Chromium, and all other WebKit-based browsers.

Can't believe nobody's recommended NileRed/NileBlue yet. His videos are awesome

Ah, you're right, my bad. I could have sworn I remembered a search syntax on ddg for searching different sites with an anonymous query - apparently ! operators are not it

DuckDuckGo can search using almost any search engine anonymously. Want to search Bing? Scratch this, I remembered wrong what those do.!b query
. Google? !g query
.
I do believe there's a setting to aggregate the top results from several different engines as the default search algorithm.

I created a site that helps people search the fediverse
I had been having trouble getting meaningful results from the fediverse on Google, and after seeing this post, it seems I'm not the only one. So, I created a site that helps search the fediverse in your search engine of choice (it currently supports Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Dogpile).
Due to query limitations with most search engines, it currently only searches the top 15 lemmy/kbin instances, but I've tested it and it seems to provide access to a good chunk of fediverse content. The exception is Google, which should be far more reliable overall as well as providing the ability to search Mastodon and PeerTube.
If you have contributions or ideas for improvement, feel free to check out the project here or shoot me a message. Hope this helps people! :)
Edit: Update in progress inc