@michal@101010.pl avatar michal , to random Polish

Czym właściwie jest ?
Jakie są zalety i wady ? O tym opowiadam w najnowszym wpisie 👇🏻

https://blog.narecki.name/czym-jest-metawyszukiwarka

@lascapi@social.tchncs.de avatar lascapi , to random

Do you use , , , , or something else ??? There is no false answer! 😌

Tell us why and let us discover new tools to search online! 🙂

lascapi OP ,
@lascapi@social.tchncs.de avatar

Results with 13 votes:

Thank's for your answers :)

@michal@101010.pl avatar michal , to random Polish

Wygląda na to, że moja prywatna instancja złapała jakiegoś bana czy coś. Wyszukiwanie praktycznie nie działa (wymagana CAPTCHA). Trudno, póki co wracam do :duckduckgo:
Niby jest jeszcze ale to oznacza kolejną subskrypcję 😬

@unoacademy@mastodon.uno avatar unoacademy , to Sicurezza Informatica, Privacy e lotta al capitalismo della sorveglianza Italian

Per ritornare ad avere un motore di ricerca che restituisce quello che realmente si cerca, senza AI, senza risultati sponsorizzati, senza manipolazione, c'è il meta-motore di ricerca open source SearXNG:

:opensource: https://searxng.devol.it

per installarlo su , , c'è l'estensione dedicata:

:firefox: :librewolf: https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/devol-searxng/

qua invece la guida a dei @devol :

:devol: https://newsletter.devol.it/guida-completa-a-searxng-privacy-e-liberta-nelle-tue-ricerche-online/

:lemmy: Pubblicato nel gruppo sicurezza: sicurezza@diggita.com icon Sicurezza Informatica, Privacy e lotta al capitalismo della sorveglianza

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elvith , (edited ) to Selfhosted in SearXNG doesn't load the settings ...

I'm also using podman to host SearXNG on a cloud vps. If you'd like, I can provide you my quadlet and config files to get it running with podman's systemd generator.

With those you can just systemctl enable/disable/start/stop/restart searxng. Also my files do have podman's auto update activated for the SearXNG stack.

Edit: There's also a matrix room for SearXNG if you need help: https://matrix.to/#/:matrix.org

@itsfoss@mastodon.social avatar itsfoss , to random

Google who? Finding freedom with privacy-focused solutions.

https://itsfoss.com/leaving-google-ecosystem/

Vex_dn , (edited )
@Vex_dn@mastodon.social avatar

@itsfoss
For file storage:

  • nextcloud.
    Calendars and contacts:
  • davx5
    Emails:
  • tutanota
    Photos:
  • immich
    Web browser/Search:
  • firefox/searxng
    Maps:
  • comaps
    Find my location:
  • nextcloud phonetrack/traccar.
    Music and videos
  • jellyfin

Phone is split in personal and work mode, personal stores all fdroid and open apps, I only use 2 apps from google for cameras and they stay in the work profile download from Aurora.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi
I like how the search engine is the product instead of me .
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

dm ,
@dm@nrw.social avatar

@arstechnica I tried kagi, liked it and then chose
Now I pay a little amount for the instance which I use regularly (which is located where I live). it’s called https://gruble.de but there are many other ones as well.

mousey ,
@mousey@seattlematrix.org avatar

@arstechnica Yeah, I'll stick with , thanks.

mousey ,
@mousey@seattlematrix.org avatar

@arstechnica Yeah, I'll stick with , thanks.

@gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io avatar gordoooo_z , to random

Has anyone else on a mission to find a daily driver search engine that isn't Google or Bing given Mojeek a look? It's been around since 2004, with its own crawler and index of somewhere in the realm of 6-7 billion pages, all run from a data center in the UK run by Custodian Data Centres, who claim its one of the greenest in the country (can't vouch for the veracity of that claim; it's all news to me).

They've also been lamenting the state of search on the web for years, and discussing the need for more independent search indexes, so they seem to be on the right side of the fight. Obviously, corporations are not your friends, so yeah, that could change at any moment, but while I like SearXNG (when my preferred instance is fully operational; it was barely usable for the last day or two), and Startpage when it's not telling me I'm blocked for acting like a bot or using a VPN I'm definitely not using???, they're both still meta engines aggregating results from the usual suspects (in the case of SearXNG, a very flexible one that lets the end user choose which sources they want/don't want results from, but still), so I think there's value in having at least one other actual independent crawler with its own index, and much like web browsers, it's an increasingly difficult thing to do from scratch without VC money (Cliqz tried, but couldn't survive the pandemic).

Anyway, I set it as my default engine in LibreFox yesterday, and am going to trial it for at least a few days to see how it goes. Will report my findings.

And here's some hashtag spam (please do share your info/experiences, if so inclined):

Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?

I was just thinking about this, when I'm facing an issue, the first thing I do is go to a search engine and usually there's a Reddit post. But I don't want to ask there. And the only way we're going to build up the info for folks to find us and come here is for us to just start asking here. On the Fediverse. We need to build ...

ozoned OP , to Fediverse in Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?
@ozoned@piefed.social avatar

YUP! Just spoke on the SearxNG Matrix folks: https://matrix.to/#/:matrix.org

And you CAN do !bangs for the Fediverse they said. !lemmy or !mastodon for instance. I didn't know that! I'll be posting more about this.

@sh4dowhe4rt@vivaldi.net avatar sh4dowhe4rt , to random

Sad to see that @Qwant don't work in or @Mojeek

@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp avatar FlockOfCats , to random

I just did a quick comparison of how search results looks on Google, DuckDuckGo, and self-hosted SearXNG

First Google: 🤮 three screenshots and few actual search results

A screenshot displaying information about homemade baby food recipes. It includes a list of recipes for various purees and common questions regarding baby food preparation. There are also images of assorted baby foods in bowls.
Screenshot displaying search suggestions related to homemade baby food recipes for various age groups, along with a snippet from the Raising Children Network website about preparing baby food.

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@RareBird15@allovertheplace.ca avatar RareBird15 , to selfhosting group

I'm curious to hear what others are ! Here's my current setup:

Hardware & OS

Infrastructure & Networking

Security & Monitoring

Authentication & Identity Management

  • Authelia (Docker): Just set this up for two-factor authentication and single sign-on. Seems to be working well so far!
  • LLDAP (Docker): Lightweight LDAP server for managing authentication. Also seems to be working pretty well!

Productivity & Personal Tools

Notifications & Development Workflow

  • Notifications via: (Docker) and Zoho's ZeptoMail ()
  • Development Environment: Mostly using VSCode connected to my server via Remote-SSH extension.

Accessibility Focus ♿️🖥️

Accessibility heavily influences my choices—I use a screen reader full-time (), so I prioritize services usable without sight (, ). Always open to discussing accessibility experiences or recommendations!

I've also experimented with:

  • Ollama (): Not enough RAM on my Pi.
  • Habit trackers like Beaver Habit Tracker (): Accessibility issues made it unusable for me.

I don't really have a media collection, so no Plex or Jellyfin here ()—but I'm always open to suggestions! I've gotten a bit addicted to exploring new self-hosted services! 😄

What's your setup like? Any cool services you'd recommend I try?

selfhost@lemmy.ml icon Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. selfhosted@lemmy.world icon Selfhosted selfhosting@a.gup.pe icon selfhosting group

@r3pek@r3pek.org avatar r3pek , to random

hey @Vivaldi , how about some love? You're not "discovering" as a search engine 😔

@cyberfurz.social@cyberfurz.social avatar hack13 , to random

So with my new found knowledge of upsetting me and causing me to leave it... The fact the only other engines that are not just proxying google or bing... Is or and while brave one is nice... I just cannot bring myself to use something that funds a biggot... Then mojeek just feels dated and not great...

I am tempted at bringing fuzzysearx back... and even look at trying to leverage the built in ability to add custom engines to look at leveraging other abilities... because searxng really seems like the only ethical way I can see to leverage search engines collecting data...

@vij@sfba.social avatar vij , to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/bing-outage-shows-just-how-little-competition-google-search-really-has/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

tom ,
@tom@swiss.social avatar

@arstechnica I used during the outage of duckduckgo.

@agr@pleroma.envs.net avatar agr , to random

While Bing is down, time to (re)visit @Seirdy excellent post:

**A look at search engines with their own indexes

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

Including Mojeek (own index) and SearxNG a metasearch engine (list of public instances here: https://searx.space/)

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Someone actually built a Chrome extension to "Hide annoying Google AI Overviews". LOL. Right now it only has 2,000 users, but I wouldn't be surprised if it reaches millions in a few months when SGE (Search Generative Experience) will be rolled out globally. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/neibhohkbmfjninidnaoacabkjonbahn Duckduckgo is also releasing similar tech using AI .

jenesaisquoidirehelp ,
@jenesaisquoidirehelp@framapiaf.org avatar

@nixCraft What about meta search engine : https://github.com/searxng/searxng

lemonuri , to Selfhosted in REDACTED

Maybe try the searxng matrix support chat, I think there might be a few developers around that could point you in right direction:

matrix.to/#/:matrix.org

They also have a Mirc support channel is that is more your cup of tea.