I think for many people who want to selfhost a search engine, a metasearch engine like SearX (and forks) are not what they are looking for.

It would be really nice if SearxNg could query an internal index instead of relying on 3rd party search engines.

They also announced it on their Mastodon, I guess OP didn’t realize they had one.

It makes sense for fediverse instances to have very low SEO (search engine ranking) as the content is split up across many different websites and domains.

Sadly this is very common for small game developers (and even large ones) to move entirely to Discord to avoid paying or managing a dedicated forum

As someone who runs multiple email servers, this is exactly how it works.

Some email providers will randomly or purposely block emails I sent to them. I get arbitrary blocks or dropped emails on sent emails.

Many communities and projects have replaced their wiki’s with Discord and this model is being adopted by more and more communities.

Gone are wiki articles, which are replaced by live chat with a terrible search functionality and interface.