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Whoever voted for that guy now gets to enjoy his (hopefully short) mandate and whatever “unforeseen” backlash they get from it.

All the rest get to cry and fight for the reestablishment of a democratic regime.

Don’t call it a hammer. It’s universal key: it can open what is closed, close what is open, loose what is tight, tighten what is loose.

If on one side I feel a good degree of enthusiasm to see Europe get off its ass and do something in the means of establishing more web services on european soil, on the other side I really don’t have much hope of seeing that much of a result coming forth.

Can someone remember StumbleUpon? It was more effective at listing and divulging web content than search engines.

At this point, I think having a huge listing of websites, where one could sign up their site or or have it signed automatically when then registering it, would be more efficient than relying on a handful of search engines.

I actually meant wi-fi but my brain fizzled.

Wireless!

Simple. Most FOSS are built for privacy and thus do not harvest data to send to some server somewhere in the world for whatever obscure reason. The data is locally stored on your device and stays and dies there.

No callback, no selling nor surrending data.

Personally speaking, I’d quicker have all data banks destroyed than surrendered to whatever purposes, if I ever decided to build an aplication that somehow compiled data.

Their loss.

No, no.

I literaly mean you pull a cable between yours and your neighbors house. Then the next house and so on and so forth.

Like building a record breaking lan party.

How much is your average subscription over there?

Make a large enough LAN and you get a small internet hub.

At this point, I wonder why people aren’t simply laying down cable between eachothers homes to create communitary networks.

It’s amazing, isn’t it?

Isn’t this an extreme security issue for companies?

Leave the brains alone.

Okay.

Now that we already know we are pretty much at the hands of one pupeteer, what options are there?

I already read about Kagi (apologies if mispelled) but I like to write as a hobby and 300 searches per month go fast.

What other options are there?

Edit:

For those who may be arriving now:

• Kagi seems to be a good option for an alternative search engine; it is a paid service, for which I don’t have the €€€ right now. Many speak very well about it.
• SearXNG is a thing as well, to my understanding a decentralized search system. Worth the try, in my opinion. If it’s something that is decentralized, it is worthy to support and divulge.
• There is mojeek.com, supposedly not very good but any option that goes against the monopoly is worth the try! I’m going to try this one.
• Brave.com is an option but is a bit shady.
• You should try Ecosia if you want to support reforestation efforts. Read somewhere in the thread it is part of the Bing ecosystem.
• Yep is a thing as well. Somewhere in the thread, a lemmy points they use the search results for AI trainning. So… That is that.
• And it seems there is a search engine by the name of dogpile.com.
• Startpage is another search engine (portal?) suggested by another user. I’ve used it before and like it. Read somewhere it somehow piped a standard google search but removed tracking and ads.
• and I just remembered Presearch.com. This is a really shady one (crypto warning!) that I suspect is a fork/collab with Brave Browser. I’ve used it, they have reward-per-search reward system (or had) where they give you crypto for every search. Good results, some that don’t come up neither on DDG nor Google.

p.p.s Should I start categorizing these from “shady” to “worthy”?

p.p.s 2 Does anyone remember StumbleUpon? I know it was never a search engine to begin with but it was the best source of good internet content I ever got acquainted to.

Can we get something like that back?