I don’t remember the exact search, but it had something to do with Star Citizen. A link to a post from that Lemmy.world community was fairly high on a DuckDuckGo search result.
Along with a few other users, I’ve posted some useful links and info in the community over there. It looks like that work is starting to pay off.
I find it useful to sign up for multiple accounts and then segregate those into browsing/posting habits for different categories. One for gaming (or other relaxed communities), one for science & tech, one for politics that I only occasionally dip into, one that’s a voting only account, etc.
At the very least, you can take a break from communities that can easily be more toxic, whenever you want. If downvotes bother you, I would also suggest signing up with a fediverse instance that disables downvotes.
I’ve actually started to see some results from Lemmy.world in DuckDuckGo search results.
A lot of users will recommend different services to replace YouTube. In my opinion, the best thing you can do is use GrayJay.
You’ll be able to use any of the services (PeerTube, Odysee, Nebula, YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Rumble, Dailymotion, Bitchute, etc.).
Then all you have to do is follow those that you usually do, but you’ll be able to find them on any alternative service (if they use them).