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… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!

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[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Or how about YaCy. It's self-hostable & you can have your own web index and start your own web-crawler.

It's peer-to-peer too

[–] motruck@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is exactly what I came here to find. Thank you for posting it. If I can be so bold selfhosters should really be leaning this way searxng is great but it still uses big tech.

The other thing we need is a way to identify good crawling agents or *smol agents over corporate bots that just steal content.

If selfhosters can unite and build a good index perhaps searching can go back to the way it was vs a vector to sell you more and collect your data.

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

You know what else I like ? Fossil

It's a FOSS alternative to Git itself, their official site itself is a self-hosted instance of Fossil.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

I personally love yacy.