Monero doesn’t have most of these problems…

That comment is there specifically to drive engagement up with all of the people correcting me in the comments.

the goal is to prevent competition, not promote it.

For now we’re going to host on residential connections, and if any ISPs ban us, we’ll just find other ISPs

Its about reducing attack surface and risk by minimizing dependencies

The frontend is pure HTML and CSS, you can see what its doing with inspect element, all network requests too

Our frontend is open, its just HTML and CSS, nothing proprietary client side, which would piss him off.

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.

For anyone who asks, we will not open source, but we may offer a licensed self-hosted version for a small yearly fee (maybe $10-20).

I’ve open sourced everything I’ve made in the past, and all that’s happened is someone with more money picks up my project, outcompetes me, and drives me out of business. I dont want our hard work going to waste.

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.

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.

Its not Google Sheets. It was initially generated with the tool because I like the formatting, but its HTML running on Cloudflare Pages. The source code is here

If you see errors or hwve suggestions, please submit an issue on GitHub, they’re easier to track than here

Lets be honest, its not much different from China. They both make social media companies censor, and they both track citizens to predict their likliness of committing a crime in the future.

I forgot Grindr DMs, but you already know that ones gonna be red all the way down lmao

Pls share with friends if you find it useful, I dont accept donations or anything, and it’ll never have ads or bullshit.

I’m working on adding more services, but each one takes about 4 hours to research and review.

I don’t have a great relationship with my family, so it makes it even harder around christmas times. I’m a paranoid introvert in need of friends, and trust is hard to come by, so stress builds up until I freak out because I have no one to share any ideas or life stories with. No one to keep me level headed and make sure I’m okay, and no one for me to care about. Still looking for that one good friend to come along…

Sadly not. I still have no friends, and no one to talk to. I recently escaped from being literal forced labor for a gang, and am now trying to put life back together without telling my family.

My family are all very catholic, and they’d want my head on a stick if they knew I was stuck working for a gang, despite it being against my will.

Christmas is gonna be hard, because I’ll have to resist the urge to let out those emotions, as they’re the only people I talk to. Still looking for a good friend :(