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Codeberg is a nonprofit, that has a democratic “member” system and is fully funded through donations / member fees.

Codeberg has always been perfectly sane

I am a huge believer in free software and researched a bit if there was any open source social media.

I found out the Fediverse was a pretty successful attempt at this and now I am active mostly on piefed and Mastodon.

Contrary to most people here, I don’t have a huge gripe with Reddit, that I wouldn’t have with any other corporate owned social media. I am here mostly because I believe in this project and want to see it evolve. I don’t simply see it as a Reddit / Twitter alternative.

You could also consider donating it to the projects you are hosting. Because developing that software still takes a lot of labour and these devs really need it

I have a used ThinkPad T460, I found a really nice deal for on eBay (90€).

It serverves me pretty well I mostly watch videos on it (works pretty well up to 1080p on Youtube), but it’s fine for most things, web browsing, editing documents and even coding.

I used it during a game jam with my friends, we were making a 2d game in Godot and it was good enough for that. I am running Linux Mint on it, it is a miracle what Linux can do for your old machines.

Other than that, old surface pros are pretty good nowadays and the 5th/ 6th generation can be found for 150€ if you are lucky. They also have excellent Linux support if you get the right kernel patches .

But I would probably recommend you try out Linux on your existing Laptop and see how it works for you. M2 support is pretty good nowadays for Asahi Linux. Maybe get an external drive for that money.

Oh, that worked, thank you!

Maybe you could implement the search suggestions URL into the OpenSearch (because at least when I added it via right click add search engine, it only added the search URL), but that could be an error on my part.

Also, I am just curious, where do you get the search suggestions from? Do you just query one of the engines?

I’ve installed this on my home server and I must say, I am quite impressed!

It just feels so much snappier than SearXNG, I think the loading “animation” helps with that a lot. I also love the whole plugin system, there is already a lot available, maybe in the future, if I have a good idea, I will make one myself.
I was a bit skeptical about the AI thing at first, but at least you are transparent about it and your stance seems to be reasonable.

If you want some suggestions on what to work on in the future, it would be cool, if there was a search suggestion api URL, I could add to Firefox to have search suggestions in my address bar. Also maybe bangs to only search with a certain engine, like in SearXNG.

Thank you for all the work you already put into this, looking forward to future updates!

I would recommend you buy a Pixel phone and install GrapheneOS on it, if you want to continue to be able to do what you want with your phone.

It’s in Googles best interest to lock this down even further, so we should try to just not rely on their software anymore

Reddit was a centralized vc-funded social media from the start. That always was and still is the problem with reddit (enshitification etc.)

The Fediverse is none of those things. We have the power. As long as there are good people in the Fediverse, that want and are willing to do great things with it, the Fediverse (or at least a portion of it will be great.

Think of the Fediverse like E-Mail. Shure, there are shitty E-Mail providers. But if you are unhappy, you can just switch your provider and still talk to anyone that has E-Mail. There is no way for a single bad actor to ruin E-Mail for everyone, because there is no one fully in control over E-Mail.

I think that you have a lot of agency over how you live your life and what you do, which has a huge impact on your happiness.

There is no general answer here, just try to do more things that you know are good for you and make you happy. Eat healthier, stay reasonably fit, get a good and consistent sleep cycle (this has a huge hormonal impact on your happiness). Enjoy good art, make meaningful connections, if you are angry about the state of the world, try to revolt.

The question is, if this is correlation or causation. Maybe some people just do less things, that make them happy as they age? Doesn’t mean that you are gonna be unhappy.

Also, this is an average and I imagine, that there is a very high variance among different people. A lot of people may very well get progressively, happier as they age.

I would say, that happiness comes very much down to how you live your life, how you view the world and what you do.

If you have a job, that makes you happy and good relationships and stuff like that, you are probably gonna be happy regardless of your age.

There is no empirical way to measure happiness, just because a paper says so doesn’t mean, that it’s objectively correct