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- on is degoog a decent search engine? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
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on Fluxer delivers updated landing page and 2026 roadmap. in c/foss@beehaw.org · 17 Sep 2026
Agreed, though tbh even I found Matrix extremely confusing, buggy, and lacking features when I last tried it, I can’t imagine how non-technical users would find it. I don’t see it ever really becoming a massively widespread replacement (not that it needs to be, they’re very much doing their own thing).
Stoat felt really clunky last time I tried it but that was way back when Discord first announced the age bullshit, so maybe I’ll give it another look. Maybe I’m misremembering and/or it’s changed since then, but I don’t recall self-hosting and decentralization being on their roadmap?
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on Fluxer delivers updated landing page and 2026 roadmap. in c/foss@beehaw.org · 17 Sep 2026
I’ve been vouching for it since it admittedly works pretty well, but lately I’m back on the fence. I was under the impression that it only started as a vibecoded project, but has shifted gears since (and while I don’t like to excuse AI slop bullshit, unfortunately it is much more common in software dev than anything else). I thought I read that since putting a team together it’s become much better in that regard, but judging by very recent commit histories that doesn’t seem to be the case.
All of that, plus the early payment options and general corporate feel to it, I’m not really vouching for it much any more. It’s already starting to feel kind of bloated.
Unfortunately I still can’t really see most active discord users switching to any other alternative, because Fluxer is the only one that really aims to replicate the experience.
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on Play Store blocks AuroraStore in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3 Sep 2026
I’ve gotten a few updates to go through after repeatedly clearing the cache and trying new accounts, but yeah it’s pretty fucked lately. Google’s probably trying to crack down on the burner accounts it uses.
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on PSA: Trilium Notes (FLOSS alternative to Obsidian) is now heavily AI coded with Claude in c/foss@beehaw.org · 31 Aug 2026
It’s also extremely telling that their Codeberg repo was archived and migrated to Gitlab the exact same day Codeberg put out their new anti-slop guidelines. Gross.
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on PSA: Trilium Notes (FLOSS alternative to Obsidian) is now heavily AI coded with Claude in c/foss@beehaw.org · 29 Aug 2026
Yeah I’ve been using this for a while and it’s noticeably gone to shit recently. This would certainly explain it. Time to find an alternative
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on would you wait for the Grapheneos-Motorola phone or buy a new pixel now? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Aug 2026
This is what I did but you do need to be careful with it - in the US ar least you can’t unlock the bootloader on a Verizon-issued pixel which are very common. Always ask the seller where they got it from, since most wouldn’t be technical enough to check the bootloader for you
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on it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Aug 2026
An aggregator like SearXNG or degoog is the way to these days imo. Any individual search engine will have its own share of problems, whether that’s privacy or AI nonsense or just bad results.
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on it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Aug 2026
Yeah for this reason alone Mullvad should no longer be considered viable. IVPN seems promising, I plan to switch to them once my subscription runs out. I don’t like how much they talk about being “politically neutral” but it’s better than donating to nazi freaks I guess.
Takes some tinkering but I’ve been liking it. Like so many FOSS projects right now there’s some LLM involvement unfortunately, but this dev’s been putting out really solid projects even before all this stuff came about.
Definitely works better than SearXNG, plus the customization and the plugin system are excellent. 4play for google searches didnt work well for me, but the Google CSE engine solved that problem.