• dropdrip@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    I would like to direct the reader to Yacy. It’s a free-software, self-hosted search-engine. Users have the option to peer with other users, creating a larger decentralised search engine.

    Build it. Use it. Promote it. Finance it. Bupf it, for short. Build the future you want or piss and moan endlessly.

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      17 hours ago

      Cool! Would this be much different then say SearXNG? I know SearXNG relies on google, DDG etc to formulate its searches.

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      14 hours ago

      Neat. Reminds me of bitmagnet, which crawls BitTorrent’s DHT to built a searchable index of torrents. It lacks a peer option though.

      I ran it for an hour and calculated that it would use over 1TB/month of bandwidth, which is too much for my data cap :(

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        13 hours ago

        I used an application like that once, peer to peer dht torrent search. I won’t go near that ever again, that was some nasty stuff I don’t want to get caught dead with.