TempleOS

Everyone suggests Peertube here, yet nobody uses it.

I think the biggest problem is that it’s not integrated nicely. Only Piefed and maybe some Lemmy apps have an embedded player, which allows you to play the video without leaving the site. But most people will still have to open the link in a new tab, which is especially inconvenient on mobile apps. When I see a Peertube link, most of the time I don’t even bother opening it. Another issue is that if you want to upload a video, you first have to find a good instance and then create an account to do so.

And even then, OP was looking for a site that allows direct linking (which would play natively in every app), something that Peertube does not allow. And most of the sites he mentioned, allow uploading without an account.

So I think that Peertube is not a good suggestion here. At least not yet.

Yeah it sucks, and you cannot get good search results anywhere.
Not that you have many different options anyways…

Lemmy search is only searching for exact text you searched for. There is somewhat useful option to search only post titles.

Piefed search at least has some filters (nsfw, post type, instance software, minimum score…) and search operators (and, or, not…) but it doesn’t have the search only post titles option.

Sometimes searching in google and just appending “lemmy” to your query will give surprisingly good result and sometimes it will return nothing.

Searxng has the search !bang for lemmy posts !lepo, which gives more or less the same results as lemmys search.

Would it be possible to run Syncthing in Termux?