If kagi is just an aggregate of other search engines why not just use a searx instance instead? Its open source and customizable.
Danterious
Why entertainment is a luxury, knowledge and education is basically what human civilization is built upon and should be free.
I think entertainment has the same cultural value as knowledge and education. They both inform us on how we view the world.
Ok, so do you think it's a good or bad thing to be pirating these things?
So what is the the solution then? What kind of culture would be more operationally secure?
You can block any posts coming from threads.net by going to settings and doing instance blocking but long term it probably is better to just move to a different instance that better aligns with your values.
I appreciate it.
I think it is part of a long term strategy.
They saw all the negative feedback that was given when the first announcement came and there were a lot of users saying its not so bad or that we should give them a chance then.
Eventually everything became quiet and things moved on now there is a steady rise of pro Meta comments again and this time it will lead to a less violent reaction because it has already happened once before.
Rinse and repeat until they become the norm.
Can’t all vpns do this though?
No one from hexbear has commented on this thread yet.
That's unfortunate.
Don't you guys have an admin chat group. Or at least you guys would have some way of keeping in touch since this has happened before.
Semi related to this I think a good way to avoid back doors in open source software is to have as few dependencies as possible. So I appreciate that this is a thing.