IIRC the content is on multiple. If there’s a single user on lemmy.world subscribing to content from somewhere.else’s foo community, then foo will be synced to lemmy.world and if somewhere.else is taken down it will remain on lemmy.world.

But someone correct me if I’m wrong.

Also, it isn’t just about servers going offline. If a single server does something bad, you can just switch to a different one and enjoy the same content you’ve been seeing.

That isn’t relevant to the comment though.

I know, and all the options look pretty bad IMO. That also doesn’t fix UX problems.

They deleted the fact that they are a metasearch engine

The diff you linked to has the new text of

Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide

You’re being very disingenuous. Actually, no - your statement above is flat out wrong.

I tried SearXNG but the UI/UX was so shitty that I’d honestly rather pay for Kagi. Lots of people love it because it’s open source and are willing to 100% look past all UI/UX problems, which is a very common problem with open source in general.

Also, the actual quality of the results was garbage compared to Kagi.

Those people are dumb and weird.

I think the goal is they can replace cars a ton of the time for a ton of people. Take the train to work and then rent a car for the occasional road trip.

I wonder if someone could invent a new open source machine of some sort along with a tool to fix that, and that tool just happens to also be able to fix the McDonald’s ice cream machines?

https://github.com/versotile-org/verso

I bought a custom domain and use it with Proton. If Proton shuts down or something I can easily use the same domain with another provider.

I’ve been using Linux at home for a decade now and have never needed to install a driver.

I think the negativity is more about it being used for AI than to solve any important problems with the world.

After they decide to abandon their AI project can we use them for something meaningful?

Yep, I had said

mobile Firefox

Just saying it’s sad that FF mobile on Android is basically the only time it doesn’t work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1f6lste/fido2_not_working_on_firefox_nightly_android/

Maybe you’re on iOS?

Meanwhile mobile Firefox doesn’t even support YubiKey / FIDO2 for some godforsaken reason.

Because politicians are loyal to mega corps.

This isn’t accurate. The issue is that part of that open source software is using non-open source APIs which are paid for by the WordPress Foundation. Making money off open source software is harmless and AFAIK he has no issues with that. However, using an enormous amount of resources where your foundation needs to pay $$$$$ for without contributing anything is what this is about.

The same issue is with Linux, for example. The OS is open source, but the repositories are hosted be e.g. Canonical, which needs to pay to maintain them and for the enormous amount of bandwidth and usage from people updating their packages. That isn’t free.

It’s very common for companies which fork Ubuntu / Debian to contribute back in some meaningful way, whether that’s source code or donations.

WP Engine doesn’t contribute anything.

The search engine magic isn’t just about caching pages. It’s also extremely expensive / complex to:

• maintain an index of all the websites in the world. This is an extremely high cost
• refresh that index in almost real time. How long will your self hosted crawler take to find new content for every website in the world?
• there’s also the algorithm for weighing results. The order of results and their relevance is not easy at all. How many times a word appears on a page is a terrible metric.

A hosted search is also a lot more environmentally friendly - that gigantic search index and all the energy poured into the work is something that can be shared by everyone. If everyone did that themselves at home, you spend that same amount of energy for every single household.

It could have been USB 4 Spec 2.0, couldn’t it?