NebLem

Agree. If only I could convince more of my friends to drop siloed socials and get fediverse accounts, I’d have a solution for that, but that’s not happening.

TIL about that option, thanks.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ is pretty awesome for getting human generated / small web content.

If I’m looking for people sharing my hyper-fixation https://aboutideasnow.com/ is excellent. https://searchmysite.net/ is a indieweb opti-in only tool with similar usecases but not much is there. Lemmy

https://www.mojeek.com/ I have as my default browser search to try to support as its the only real large index comparable to Google and Bing (DDG uses), but it falls short a lot.

DDG is my primary engine when I need something fast / the others don’t work.

If I can’t find it in the small web and regular search fails, I’ll sometimes try the udm14 Google trick https://udm14.com/

After that its posting to the askfedi hashtag (or ask here)

I forgot the LemmyWtf Peertube community had this directory of recommendations: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

Outside of what others posted, here’s a quick list:

North American Urbanists: CanadianCivil has Paige Saunders, OhTheUrbanity, and Shifter. Urbanists.video has Heartland Urbanist

FOSS stuff: Penpot (foss figma, they have their own instance) Emacsconf (on Toobnix)

Fedi folks: Elena Rossini (on her own instance)

Fedi.video is a great place to discover other stuff outside of just using Sepia/in-app searching by what you’re looking for.