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Tips to reduce Enshittification of Internet (self.asklemmy)

submitted 6 months ago by max641 to c/[email protected]

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^Qn.

How to reduce the enshittification on various services.

( eg: Payment sites instead of Apps, Ads in Facebook site - I rarely use FB )

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I get the impression it might just be really hard to run your own search engine, so a new frontend is the best we can do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Essentially, It really isnt that hard.
But
A) there is no unified project for the masses.
B) it is very hard to create a universal search engine that gives you needed info for something extremely unexpected like "reggae feline flames scanner" .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean a good search engine, comparable to Google. Even if the software is doable that's a lot of data that has to be scraped and stored.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It would be dfficult to keep all kinds of random things in an affordable database.

I'm more concerned about the meaning of life. Which, conveniently is 42.