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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Kagi doesn't index, it's Google results as a proxy. That's literally what Searx does, and it's free. The issues you said with needing to pay for search is solved with Searx even if you claim it doesn't, it does. Also other search engines like DDG does a crawler + bing results is funded by ads, they're profitable. The mental gymnastics to pay for a shitty service makes no sense to me, but you do you if you want to support this terrible practice. Not to mention the numerous other issues I listed that you ignored.

Searx could use Kagi though.

Lol that makes no sense, and it probably violates Kagi's ToS. You're running a self hosted proxy through a service that's just a proxy for Google results. Just set Searx to search Google for the exact same thing.

"If you aren't paying for something, you are the product" sounds nice, but isn't true. Advertisment can exist and you can still not the product.

Instead it somehow makes more sense to pay for a privacy invasive search engine that requires a login, requires cookies, and doesn't work in private search.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (9 children)

We want clippy!

Actually I don't care tho cuz everything I need is comfortably on my Linux install.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Matrix is literally the best decentralized real time chat we have. I don't think you understand how the Matrix protocol at works, and I assume you are blindly repeating what you read online that XMPP must be better because it supposedly has less lines of code, though I'm sure you didn't check that either.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Portable accounts and being able to add third party layers to your feed for moderation and sorting algorithms. At least that's their design goal, idk if it's actually implemented because I never got an invite after like half a year.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

Being educated indoctrinates people to not be conservative. It's not college's fault directly, they're at fault for educating students, and making them smarter to realize how dumb as shit conservatism is.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

There is no law in the requiring data logging in the US, nor is it required to comply with FBI security data requests. This has been fought for and won in court and beat out gag orders over the subject. It is also deemed a violation of the first amendment.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (25 children)

Why the hell would you pay for search when the free competitors are just better

Also it's automatically not private when it requires a login. They know exactly what user is searching what, and basically breaks search in incognito mode. Also people love more accounts to manage.

"If it's free then you're the product" isn't even true when search engines are ad supported, so stick with the much better free alternatives.

If you really want to pay while not having to login, self-host a searx instance and you'll be logging your own data. You'll have complete control, it's significantly cheaper, and it's far more private without having to even login.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It's just a cute story bro

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Damn that's a brave thing to say on the internet lol. I'm also really surprised this actually got upvoted so much.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Wow we have a lot in common, neither does Lemmy lol

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Looking at the Liberapay, it's shocking Lemmy only gets $332 a month to fund this entire social media. Compare that to the totally "grass roots" normal NFT growth where they immediately had millions poured into them from venture capitalist. As it turns out, actual grass roots social media without profit incentive isn't profitable! And that's how you know we're on the right path.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Something called cock network is automatically evil lol

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