it’s an instance for people who remember how the internet used to be. without jannies micromanaging every corner, and with the expectation that nobody owes you protection from whatever you might find; if you go looking, finding something you don’t like is your own fault.

you’re in luck, both already exist. check out pixelfed and peertube.

make those results sort- and exportable (CSV, JSON, XML or the like), and you could be the new redditsearch.io. especially filtering results by different community/time/author would be great, and sorting by length/upvotes. what was that site with reddit post statistics called again? I know, this all might be further out, and wrangling bugs, the changing API and cloudflare might be more pressing issues, but maybe put it on the feature request list somewhere? all the best, and thank you for making this!