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.

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.

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.

For me, the problem is not discords real time chat functionality (e.g. like IRC).It’s that communities are using it as their only source of information and getting rid of wiki pages and support forums.

There are many open source projects and communities whose documentation lives entirely in Discord. This makes finding information much harder as search engines don’t have the information indexed so you resort to asking on chat and hoping someone replies or using Discord’s horrible search functionality (it’s very basic and has a poor UI)