mangamanager might help

With Lemmy it’s !technology@beehaw.org (do Lemmy users see this as “!technology”?)
From kbin it’s the same but with an @. @technology (@technology@ beehaw.org)
IDK how others have search set up. There may not be a way

Selfies. It has a better camera than my phone

your method is great. another way to think about updating software like this would be in the docker container version. you can use watchtower to update them automatically. I personally use docker and this method for updates