The first one that comes to mind is the order on birthright citizenship. Most of others I’ve looked into are in the borderlands of maybe. I seem to recall LegalEagle did a video on it, but I haven’t seen it yet. Haven’t had time.

Here’s the video if you’re interested.

https://youtu.be/GBe8BgjzLwk

Probably a little of all of the above.

Folks that run OSs other than Windows and Mac are usually not passive sheep. If you want folks to just sit back and ignore what is going on you probably don’t want agitators in the mix.

I have two. One account is through Protonmail and my main email account is through Private Email. Both are paid accounts, though Proton does have a free tier if money is tight.

Might take a look at the instance I’m on. Lemmy.sdf.org. It’s pretty chill, and SDF has been doing the social media thing since the 80’s without much issue. Started as a dial up BBS devoted to anime back in the day. Leans anime, music/art generally and computers. Supported via donations.

You might try searxng, though due to the way federation works, that’s not really necessary. All you need to do is search one of the more federated instances like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml or lemmy.sdf.org and you will pull up anything that server has seen related to your search. User blocks aren’t really an issue, since you don’t need to be logged in. The only time searching multiple instances would be helpful is if you know the post originally might have come from an instance that doesn’t widely federate or is heavily blocked from federation.

Also I’ve seen quite a few folks from lemmy.ca so you might try your instance’s own search. It will usually search federated content as well as local content.

The main issue though is like @[email protected] suggested. Lemmy is young, it doesn’t have nearly 20 years of back archives that you can search nor the huge user base that Reddit had to create such a rich back archive. It’s getting there, but it is a problem only time and usage of Lemmy will solve.

As for the best Lemmy app, You might give Voyager a go. I use it on iOS and have been quite happy with it.

I use SearcXNG. It can use Google on the backend, but in default configuration it uses several different backends. It can also use paid backends if you set it up. Basically if it has a search api, SearXNG can hook into it with the right configuration.

Might try Trakt. It does a pretty good job of finding things I want to watch.

Thank you!

Thank you! That got me there!