Been trying to get away from DuckDuckGo because of their support of “AI” stuff, but come on, one of these isn’t even in English, and that’s what I have my language set to.
Also you can turn off ads on ddg.
Instead of getting a search service with some ads on the side, you’re provided ads with search results sprinkled in
Not even google tries to hide it
Switch to Startpage, it’s actually pretty great
I like Startpage, but I had to switch to DDG because it was giving me captchas constantly for using a VPN.
Owned by an ad company = TRASH.
Wait, it is?
Startpage is System1
I moved to startpage sinc eit was default when i moved to waterfox. Its mostly been good, but I’ve had a few times where it’s been painful slow.
+1
Bing on searxng is shit, yahoo ultimately is bad too, I use this combination, it helps a lot:
Hell yeah I only enabled a couple of these and it already helps a lot, thank you!
I searched up how to stop a stratis pool (Redhat knockoff ZFS) and Google gleefully gave me instructions to destroy the stratis pool, and then claimed there was no way to take down a stratis pool without destroying the data.
I think clicked on the top link which was a RedHat article that told you right from the beginning that it’s
stratis pool stop --nameOnly reason I had to even search was because I didn’t have the stratis CLI installed, so no manpage
We’re rapidly approaching a time where you have to curate your own list of helpful websites again, cause search engines are useless.
https://www.mankier.com/
This doesn’t look right:
I use searxng too, it’s decent mostly. Check your language settings?
I see you’re trying to solve the problem, that’s nice 🙂
But I had to laugh at the sites logic: Let’s detect users language, Ah! Must be country xyz, with knowing that: Go to chat GPT and ask there 😂
It’s such a bad search result, doesn’t matter if language is set or not.
Whaaat? That’s bizzare, I swear I had that set.
Nope, it wasn’t set. Still returned weird results so I’ll try that configuration the other commenter posted.
to use searx(ng) effectively you’ll need to set up your own preferences, not the default
from the screenshot, the instance caches and shows results from bing only, ass.
it also use
autoas default which will show personalized language results based on the instance’s ip (although it’s mainly yours), change that toallyou can do both just by changing and saving your preferences. for example here’s mine
I hate subs, for any kind of entertainment most of all, but I think they’re necessary for VPN/private email.
I’m adding an another item to that list. Kagi. De-enshittified search results. My partner bought it, so it’s a shared sub, but I’m sold on it. It’s like it’s 2005 again, and that’s a good thing.
I tried it out one time because another user here, Tal, usually put it into their very well made comments, so I tried it out.
Yeah, I’ve been paying for it for almost two years(?) and I never have these difficulties any more. Very happy customer. :)
Also heard praise and got recommended personally to me.
I use Qwant search
Use startpage or kagi or searxng
I’ve been genuinely happy with Kagi.
Same. So of course I’m just waiting for the news that they support eating babies or something.
I love that you can rewrite URLs. Reddit seems to block old.reddit.com from being indexed, but I have a URL rewrite in Kagi so you can site: reddit.com (or use a Reddit lense) then when you click links it goes to old.reddit.com
Literally the only case I use this but it’s the example Kagi uses so it was probably made specifically for this purpose.
I wasn’t aware of that feature, thanks.
I switched to Quant.
Did that too, but I always make a typo and end up using Qwant. Works great though.
The language detection is a bit bugged currently. Set default language to “all” in the UI (or set in the config file).
Searching “piefed” with Andisearch, it’s for me the only acceptable AI (Andi GitHub)
Its Summary
PieFed is a Reddit-like link aggregator and community platform in the Fediverse that launched in 2025[^1]. Users can subscribe to communities, post links, vote, and comment, similar to Reddit but without corporate control[1].
Key features include:
- Full Mastodon integration for cross-posting and interactions
- De-duplication that combines cross-posts and their comments in one place
- Better moderation tools compared to alternatives like Lemmy
- The ability to port communities between PieFed servers
- Clean, simple codebase written primarily in Python
According to users who have switched from Lemmy, PieFed offers improved user experience and solves many common complaints about other Reddit alternatives[2]. The platform fully integrates with the broader Fediverse, allowing Mastodon users to participate in discussions by mentioning PieFed communities in their posts[1:1].
The flagship instance is hosted at piefed.social, with the project’s code maintained on Codeberg[1:2][3].
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