1. Buy Monero
2. Buy Bitcoin using Monero
3. ???
4. Profit

:P

They seem to do quite a bit of indexing themselves. A good alternative that’s from Europe would be Qwant, but they don’t have a feature for searching the fediverse. It would be nice if it got added to fedi-search :)

Qwant and Ecosia are building a search index, but I don’t think there is anything that can really compete with Google and Bing at the moment: https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/

Be the change you want to see in the world! ☺️

Qwant is probably the best free search engine at the moment tbh

Glad you like it!

I’m in the same boat. Paying for search put me off at first, in big part due to having to login to use it. But now that I’ve tried, it’s a lot easier to use than expected. For example, you can get a session link to use for incognito searches, or an even more private option with anonymous tokens that let you use it without the searches being linked to your account at all.

The more I think about it, the more sense it makes. If a search engine is free, its goals won’t be aligned with my interests as a user and we get stuff like sponsored search results.

It’s unfortunate that they’re using religion as the basis for the new constitution, it would be much better to have full separation of the state from any religion. Despite that, it seems like a pretty big step in a positive direction for Syria

Maybe this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop after all

That sounds like a pretty good idea, since most search engines don’t play very well with the fediverse. Could be a good workaround. I’m wondering how expensive it would be to host something like that. Maybe someone with experience hosting instances could give an estimate?

This is beautiful

This stirs up some trauma