I think as the community grows, more search engines will start including us!

        • macattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          SearXNG has a the same functionality as well for free:

          You can self-host it or use one of the publicly available instances.

          • spez@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            That’s great! I had no idea you could specifically search for lemmy content in search engines (albeit niche).

          • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            6 months ago

            I wasn’t able to find an option to use Lemmy search an several public instances. Do you know an instance that supports this?

            • macattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              6 months ago

              I am self hosting my version so that is where my screenshot came from.

              If I were looking for a public instance to use that has this functionality, I’d look to some of the European hosts as they are less likely to use Reddit as their de facto platform relative to Americans

              • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                Does self-hosting with those extensions require a lot of system resources?

                • macattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  6 months ago

                  Not in my experience. I am running a docker container and it is one of +10 containers running on my server which is basically a laptop from a few years ago. So far no issues.

        • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          That’s why all the top results on every search are actual results, instead of a bunch of ads.
          Totally worth it.

          • JustUseMint@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            6 months ago

            I’m struggling with kagi because I do notike my searches tied to an account/profile (a paid CC and name and address etc.)

            I like kagi but this is making me want to cancel my membership. Thoughts?

            • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              They don’t keep a search history. Your searches aren’t tied to anything, because they aren’t even saved. They don’t have any reason to save them since they aren’t selling any targeted ads.

              • JustUseMint@lemmy.worldEnglish
                0·
                6 months ago

                This was my understanding as well. It’s the point of paying. However , it is just “trust me bro” right? It’s not like they’ve been audited for not storing user data? Even just basic logging too could hold user info. Honestly no idea with paid search engines, I know so little.

                • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
                  1·
                  6 months ago

                  Even an audit is really just someone else saying “trust me bro”. You have some level of trust.

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

        Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

        And it is apparently collecting money for YouTubers and not paying them (I did not fully read that article myself)

        • Delusion6903@discuss.onlineEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          The gay marriage thing is not a good look now, but it’s worth noting that he’s not trying to abolish it today.

          And the referral link things is also old and it was walked back after it was discovered.

          Choose your tools based on your needs because everyone will have some politics you don’t like.

          • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            0·
            6 months ago

            He may not be trying to abolish it, but he also, to my knowledge has not apologized, or done anything to show he has changed.

            • Delusion6903@discuss.onlineEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              As far as I know, you are correct. My main browser is Librewolf and search engine is DDG. But I still use Brave when I rarely need a chromium browser or alternate search engine and he gains nothing from that.

      • SloganLessons@kbin.social
        21·
        6 months ago

        As a piece of software, nothing. It’s an open source browser, and has an added bonus of having many privacy settings on by default. Not even firefox can say the same, it comes with telemetry, pocket and whatnot out of the box.

        But there are some fair criticisms about the company and its administration. For example, there was an incident years ago when you signed on a crypto exchange, it would swap the sign on link for their own referral link. They claimed this was an error and quickly patched it, but I don’t buy it.

        You’ll quickly notice that a lot of people on lemmy passionately hate brave. So expect a strong bias and, as a result, truths but overblown, half truths and misinformation. Don’t ignore what they say but double check them.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.socialEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    Odd that it’s an obscure Basque instance though. Wonder why it shows that instead of something like world or ml.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      7·
      6 months ago

      The search engine bots are absolutely powerhouse-obnoxious in how many requests they make, and there a ton of them, and Lemmy’s not real optimized to cope with the load – most big instances block all bot traffic simply as a matter of server survival as a result of that. So I would expect not to see any of them in search results any time in the near future.