I have all my windows programs added as non-steam games and havent had a problem with it. Some games with anticheat dont work, but I dont play those anyways. My entire steam library just works with at most an added launch option in terms of tinkering.
Stupid idea: Could a server like lemmy.world pretend to have a very popular post by faking interaction with it to get it to show up to everyone using threads? It seems like it would be doable to run a server that allows for vote and comment manipulation, allowing for anyone to get anything to show up on threads. This could be bad for meta, as any actual user posts would be overshadowed by fake posts/spam from federated instances. I have no idea about how lemmy works, but anyone could make a server that would be running modificated code, right?
For web search, I always first try SearXNG, but if I dont find what I need, I use startpage.com (private frontend for google.com)