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We're building a search engine to compete with DuckDuckGo. No JS, no WASM, no spying. Just a statically generated results page.

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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.

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Are you ok (really, are you)?

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 :(

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I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy

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I have worked for Status in the past, but that has not impacted the review of any apps. The spreadsheet has been reviewed thoroughly by others in the privacy space before I published it, and I encourage everyone to take a look and report any inaccuracies.

The criteria is objective on purpose. Everything on the spreadsheet can be verified for accuracy.

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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...

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Status got a recommendation purely because it has proven itself to be resiliant to subpoenas and the cryptography is implemented well.

Nothing is sponsored, and no matter who I work for in the future, it won't impact the results. It's open source on GitHub, and I'm looking for contributors to decentralize control of the spreadsheets.

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We're building a search engine to compete with DuckDuckGo. No JS, no WASM, no spying. Just a statically generated results page.

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https://github.com/bedrock-addons Went from 500k downloads and no competitors to a flooded market of clones and my app bsing banned after a fork copyrighted us for "trade dress infringement" despite my app coming first.

https://github.com/du82/client Chinese company sold our code and the company they sold to forced me to shut down so their fork could be the only one around.

https://github.com/du82/privacy-spreadsheet Other groups copied my data and I got nothing in return for my 150+ hours of work