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We're building a search engine to compete with DuckDuckGo. No JS, no WASM, no spying. Just a statically generated results page. in c/[email protected]

[–] UnHidden 28 points 9 months ago (9 children)

To answer your questions in order:

We have our own index, its not a shitshow of mixed results like Searx tends to be. this also means that we're not chasing breaking changes of some larger engine when they decide they dont want us, like Twitter did to Nitter, and Bing did to Searx.
We don't know how to monetize. Ads are the only option that we know of, donations do not work at all, as proven by my previous projects.
We've already got spam prevention and removal measures in place, but I won't discuss them.
We don't know how to scale it since its centralized by design and the frontend and backend are tightly integrated, largely because the frontend is largely generated on the fly by the backend. Maybe host a copy for each region we're aiming to acquire users from?
Our engine already understands 5 languages, and we hope to expand to CJK languages soon.

We're building a search engine to compete with DuckDuckGo. No JS, no WASM, no spying. Just a statically generated results page. in c/[email protected]

Rest in Power, Aaron. in c/[email protected]

Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] UnHidden 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should look into getting an unlocked pixel with graphene on it

How would you rank vegan imitation products? in c/vegan

[–] UnHidden 1 points 10 months ago

Hey its me the Matrix guy, please message me: @du:nitro.chat my old server was compromised

‘Now Where Was I?’ Jon Stewart Is Back in His Old ‘Daily Show’ Seat in c/[email protected]

[–] UnHidden -4 points 10 months ago

Please message me on Matrix, Telegram died. @du:dkwc.org OR @du:nitro.chat

I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy in c/[email protected]

[–] UnHidden 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mailing lists are for old fat unix guys. Who uses email anymore? I can't even remember the last time I opened my inbox, maybe a month ago for a 2FA code?

I'll stick with GitHub because its what I know. If you don't want to use GitHub, then you can still view the spreadsheet, just dont click the GitHub or Datasets links in the fop left.

I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy in c/[email protected]

[–] UnHidden 9 points 11 months ago

Status got a recommendation purely because it has proven itself to be resiliant to subpoenas and the cryptography is implemented well.

Nothing is sponsored, and no matter who I work for in the future, it won't impact the results. It's open source on GitHub, and I'm looking for contributors to decentralize control of the spreadsheets.

I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy in c/[email protected]

[–] UnHidden 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have worked for Status in the past, but that has not impacted the review of any apps. The spreadsheet has been reviewed thoroughly by others in the privacy space before I published it, and I encourage everyone to take a look and report any inaccuracies.

The criteria is objective on purpose. Everything on the spreadsheet can be verified for accuracy.

I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy in c/[email protected]

[–] UnHidden 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You're not required to contribute. I went with GH because it doesn't require creating a new account on an obscure Git provider, which would kill the chwnces of anyone contributing.

I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy in c/[email protected]

[–] UnHidden 5 points 11 months ago

Working on it

I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy in c/[email protected]

[–] UnHidden 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They purposefully removed perfect forward secrecy, which is an important part of preventing future compromise in the chain of messages.