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oh and don't forget they also want to give $1billion to AI development over the next 5 years.

I have used fedi.video and add/follow various instances I find to mine but I'm not sure if I don't have my peertube configured correctly or what but it's not pulling up anything decent.

yeah man do it. I'm making money hand over fist cleaning up AI slop, sure I'd love to have more clients in Toronto that need to dig themselves out of the LLM mess they made. get that government money that will eventually go into my pocket.

I'd rather that billion go towards housing though. But hey if they want to throw away a billion dollars over 5 years I'm more than happy to take a little bit of it off their hands.

Protip: If you're a developer and you're struggling to find work, bone up on your code review and freelance yourself to companies to clean up AI slop, been doing that for over the past year and I'm making more money than I ever did when I was just a regular web/software dev.

Pixelfed is easier to use so you're right.

Peertube is fine but trying to find good content or a good instance is a struggle still. Frendica i've signed up for but really haven't used (in fact I think the instance I signed up on is dead).

I mean I even run my own peertube instance and I barely use it because I just can't find anything good to watch on it other than a couple tech channels that update once in a blue moon.

I tried it, paid for it, cancelled it. I tested it with the same queries with ddg, startpage, brave, and qwant via 4get. The results were essentially the same. Kagi did provide more context in the description of the results but it wasn't anything I would pay a premium for. the majority of features I just didn't use, the assistant and fastgpt were a waste, lenses were fine and having fediverse on by default is neat but nothing I'd call home about.

If it were cheaper sure, I might stick with it but I can't justify the price to anyone wanting to use a search engine. $5 for 300 searches a month is a joke. I also don't like the fact that if you want to pay with something other than a credit card (paypal, venmo, etc) you get charged extra cause Kagi doesn't want to eat the fees. Also there's zero option to opt out of paying for the "AI" features, you can turn them off sure...but you're still going to pay for them.

If your internet usage consists of constant searching and LLM use for searching then sure, you're going to be paying $10+ a month and be happy with it. But there was nothing Kagi offered that knocked my socks off. if anything, felt like I was getting scammed.

Up until a few weeks ago I was running my own private SearXNG instance and it's not just you, even I noticed on my OWN instance that it had progressively gotten worse. Initially it was great so I just left it be but then the performance and results just became horrible. It was hit or miss if the thing would even load or not when other instances on my server like my akkoma, piefed, redlib, forgejo, etc all ran smooth as silk.

Eventually I ditched SearXNG and switched to 4get which much better and faster results. thing never goes down and the search results have been fantastic.

you're 100% correct and I feel bad for those people but you know the saying "a few bad apples spoil the lot"

India has an ENTIRE industry whose sole purpose is to fake academic records and assist people in faking their student visa applications. That's on the Indian government that STILL hasn't cracked down on it similar to how they don't crack down heavily on online and phone scamming of western nations. So individuals who are seeking a better life outside of India need to first fix what's going on at home. And make no mistake it's not just fake visas and scamming there's also an entire outsourcing industry that they had propped up full of unqualified developers and engineers that western companies once outsourced to.

India, in more ways than one, needs to get their shit together in several ways be it culturally, financially, and politically. When the majority of the west looks at India and instantly thinks "scammers" that's not a good look. that does not build trust. And the hard working honest people of India suffer for it.

honestly it's better to just host your own private instance as if you want a lemmy and mastodon instance that others can also set up you not only have to admin it you also have to moderate it.

Also keep in mind it's NOT just actual people signing up but you also have to deal with all the bots which WILL register en masse to your instances. a lot of people won't mention this. bots flock to this stuff like flies on shit. It's not worth it unless you plan on really dedicating the time to actively admin your instances.

I run Akkoma instead of Mastodon and Piefed instead of lemmy. both of which were easier to setup than mastodon/lemmy and less resource heavy.

yes you're right but you and I both know they aren't concerned about that because going back to your first sentence that's what this is really about but masked as a "won't anyone think of the children" so it's easier to swallow (no pun intended)