Post #1386555
2026-01-11 23:11 UTC
@baralheia @erik @vikxin @NanoRaptor it's not about whether we personally can afford it, to us, it's more that we're not sure we want to participate in building a society where basic research is only possible by paying money. we'd rather spend our time trying to find ways to do things that would work for people who can't.
we may yet change our mind on that, but that's where we're at right now.
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@baralheia@dragonchat.org 2026-01-11 23:41
@ireneista @erik @vikxin @NanoRaptor that's totally understandable tbh. I miss the era when free search engines were actually good. I mean, that's what got Google so much attention originally! I know some people swear by SearXNG, a privacy-preserving metasearch engine. Since it aggregates results from multiple search engines, it can also fall victim to slop, but imo it's still far better than vanilla Google. I find I prefer how Kagi works, but SearXNG is a perfectly cromulent free option. A list of public SearXNG instances can be found at https://searx.space