Post #2888412

so the impression I get is that searx is like ... the GNU Social of free search; it's a precursor that represents an early shot at replacing the existing megacorp offering with something independent but it's not really usable as a serious replacement unless you are ideologically dedicated to avoiding the big bad one https://docs.searxng.org/ I don't really want to use searx; I want to use the Mastodon of search--well, no, I want to use the Gotosocial of search--but the Mastodon of search doesn't exist yet and is going to be written by someone who's using the GNU Social of search, and the Gotosocial of search is going to be written by someone who's using the Mastodon of search so I should probably at least poke around and get comfortable with it to see what they are up to