Im going to look into this. What's the benefit of hosting your own searxng instance?

Using other search engines, I imagine.

Docker enshitification coming in 3... 2... 1...

While it may sound like a lot of work, it truly takes an afternoon and some unused RAM on your PC to make happen, then you're set up!

This shit is why open source software has a bad reputation.

I hope that won't disappear anytime soon!

It's yours, no issues trusting a public instance with your searches. Pages full of settings to tweak as you like. Less problems with an algorithm 'helping' you. It averages searches over multiple search engines that you choose, you can set up your own (or a curated) block list of crappy AI slop sites, don't like fandom.com or something, gone. Manage your own bangs, e.g. !aa for annas-archive. Pipe it through a VPN with gluetun for better isolation. If you have your head around docker already it's more like half an hour to set up, so why not?

Can hook it up to perplexica and a local LLM for a fully local AI search that you define, use it as a MCP server, do deep research with it...

podman exists and doesn't force root...

Everything remains the same or with few changes

A massive amount of folks are fucked due to using google for email, data storage, calendar, contacts, etc.

Meh there's a ton of other services like opentofu, podman, vms, ect...

That's true, but all of their problem with docker are that it's Linux

I am asking my local searxng. As long as websites produce content there will be search robot that will crawl them, doesn't matter if it's google or common crawl dump. The content will be scrapped and indexed and you will be able to chose from where to find it. Google just relies on users that are locked in their freemium services. If they can force users to pay the users will pay for search. Fortunately for me I am not one of them. Good luck.

Unless general-purpose Internet services will be banned.

Have you noticed that laws about providing data on bad-bad criminals yadda-yadda implicitly ban everything not allowing to get that data?

And have you noticed that Russian bans of things that can't be filtered not only implicitly allow whitelist ban of protocols and services, but are also not very far from what EU and US lawmakers want?

In any situation, if what powerful guys are doing seems to promise good things for you, first consider the possibility that you don't understand what they are doing.

I mean, 44net is a rather early thing, a subspace for packet radio part of it.

You can make an installer like the one Freenet has. Maybe even a wrapper with a tray icon in Tcl/Tk or something like that.

Well, I liked how Microsoft teams/Skype made docs easily accessible. But as always MS totally fucked up big time. So I setup my own book library, music library and photo library. I love Joplin for my notes between devices, navidrome for music, photoprism for photos. That's what I think the future internet should include.

Now AI...instead of us paying for an AI chip to deport our daily motions and emotions to coca cola so it can decide what size shoes we should wear and when, I'd like to propose something. Could a company give me an AI chip that can search and categorize all my files such that I can ask questions about them? But without double crossing me and telling Macy's about the size of my left ball? No the internet should not be big brother keeping us trapped. It should be freeing.... Welcome Mr.Johnson! I've calculated your income to inflation risk and have formulated two strategies for improvement. Here's your personal news.... I know of three favorable sexual partners living near us and have organized a fun get together this weekend for you. Your car is fully charged but you should probably do work from home today since its meeting's day. Your favorite Shakespeare quote, would you like me to recite it in French translated to Japanese with Mexican accent? No? Well, if there's anything else I can do for you....not for Nike, Nikon, Costco, Apple or Ford or Chiquita Banana, just let me know.....

No different for me. I have never used googol garbage so nothing will change.

Sounds like a them problem then.

Literally just use Wikipedia more

We know what the internet would have been without Google because some of us lived it. It was mostly decentralised niche forums that you had to know the links for, and you'd receive random emails telling you to visit this or that new site.

It was wholesome.