Since it's bittorrent-based, can anyone help seed some fragments? Is there any simple way for a layman to offer system resources without much technical expertise? My understanding is it's very hard to compete with big tech at running a search engine because of the vast amount of storage space and processing power needed
MetaGer quits!
Announcement: New Search Engine!
Google is a US military contractor, and so searching foreign policy is a conflict of interest.
Microsoft (and therefore Duckduckbing) is also heavily involved with the Pentagon, while Bill Gates pushes for digital IDs.
As the world moves to towards censorship and dystopia,
As AI dribble fills search results,
As MetaGer throws in the towel,
Simplified Privacy steps up. I'm grinding.
We've dusted off YaCy, a decade old, neglected, open source, search engine network, that relies upon DHT torrent sharing of results, in a permissionless decentralized network. I'm now running 4 global instances of this, with over 7 million pages indexed. Liberty flows through my veins, with a key focus on oppressed political news, technology, and finance:
Moldova:
https://search.simplifiedprivacy.is
Amsterdam:
https://search.simplifiedprivacy.com
Ohio, USA:
(Whole DHT network, for now)
https://ohio.simplifiedprivacy.is
Romania:
(Whole DHT network)
We let these Big Tech search engines manipulate public opinion and act as a gatekeeper to all human knowledge. Well it's time to bust down those gates. In this easy to comprehend article, I'll break down how this network works, and how it can benefit you, by exposing you to smaller oppressed bloggers with insightful and specialized expertise, while filtering out AI garbage and authoritarian propaganda:
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If you just want to share websites you like on a certain topic, you can get a VPS for $10 with 100G and run yacy in 1 command. If you run it locally on your computer, that works too, but you'd have to be online to share it. It's an easy setup, with 1 command of pre-req, and 1 to run it.