Hi all,

I'm currently wanting to make a few wiki pages for a community I host here on PieFed. Not trying to advertise the community, but for context, it's a community about BY-NC-SA licensed music, and I'm wanting to create a guide as to how to find new music with that license on certain platforms.

My trouble is this. I want to provide those viewing posts with the ability to find music with ease utilizing search engines when that's the best option to do so. However, I also don't want to have that search engine be Google if that's at all possible.

The main features I'm needing are to only fetch results from certain websites, and to specifically include or exclude specific phrases. For example, if I wanted to find BY-NC-SA power metal music on BandCamp, and exclude songs from the band Blind Desire for some random reason, I'd have the following search:

In this case, Google only fetches results from bandcamp.com, only with the BY-NC-SA license, and only with the words "power metal" in the page, while also removing results from Blind Desire.

Are there any privacy-friendly options that have similar search features? Being made aware of an alternative like this will definitely help me kick what little reliance I have left on Google.

Thanks in advance.

Hey all,

I am currently working on shifting towards a vegan diet. I have recently purchased a number of cookbooks from the thrift shop, most of them older cookbooks not centred around any specific diet, some of them based on a vegetarian, and one single one about vegan baking.

My reason for getting older cookbooks and ones focused on vegetarianism rather than veganism despite me trying to go vegan is because I've also been challenging myself to purely purchase second-hand goods whenever possible. This, when paired with my tight budget, has unfortunately made most vegan cookbooks too expensive, as the thrift shop I most often frequent, sells their books at a dollar a piece.

The one vegan cookbook I have has some suggestions for ingredient substitutions. For sour cream, it suggests using either 1 part soy yogurt, 1 part soy cream, and a splash of lemon juice as one option, and finely pureed silken tofu as another option.

My three questions are the following:

1. Considering that this cookbook is focused specifically on vegan baking, will these sour cream substitutes work as such in general cooking, or purely where sour cream is used in baking?

2. For the soy yogurt-based substitute, would oat or almond-based equivalents also work, or are there certain qualities exclusive to soy alternatives that other plant alternatives don't have that makes them most suitable as a sour cream substitute?

3.When shopping, are products labelled as "creamer" the same as products labelled as "cream"? I was only able to find the former at the supermarket.

Thanks for any and all help in advance, and I apologize if this isn't the community best suited for a question such as this. I've been especially curious as I have an older blender-centric cookbook from 1961 that has some vegetarian soup recipes with the only thing keeping them from being vegan being the inclusion of sour cream as a thickening agent.

Nazposting! is a community hosted on the Feddit.Online PieFed instance that is centred around anything and everything to do with Nazrin, the wonderful mouse youkai that appears as the first boss in the Touhou game Undefined Fantastic Object.

From memes to art to whatever else, Nazposting! serves to be a space on the fediverse for people to enjoy and appreciate one of the best characters the Touhou franchise has to offer.

https://feddit.online/c/nazrin

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Hi all!

While I'm unsure how new a community has to be to qualify for posting here, I'm hoping to shamelessly advertise a community I made on Feddit.Online called NC-SA Bops.

NC-SA Bops was made because of my personal values, and a desire to follow those values as closely and regularly as possible. In my eyes, the way the copyright system works is flawed, restricting creativity of artists in building off of existing works, as well as being heavily commercialized, potentially preventing musicians from creating music that's uniquely theirs in favour of creating music that'd be seen as more profitable.

In my explorations of music licensing, I found there to be limited options outside of the Creative Commons. I immediately distanced myself from anything licensed ND (Non-derivative) as I felt that to restrict people's creativity, and while the general ShareAlike license is fine, I also felt that by allowing commercial use of works, the general ShareAlike license does nothing to address the root issue of the copyright system: money.

I found the BY-NC-SA license perfect as it embraces creativity in allowing derivatives while also preventing commercial use not just in the original track, but in derivatives as well. Whether you agree or disagree with my thoughts, I found it annoying that finding tracks specifically licensed BY-NC-SA was a pain, and in creating NC-SA bops, I hope that it helps others find tracks they enjoy under the license with more ease.

Check it out here at https://feddit.online/c/nc_sa_bops

!nc_sa_bops@feddit.online