Minus is pretty fun. You get to post 100 times until you can't post anymore https://minus.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

> That's a big part of the appeal of places like Hacker News and Tumblr- the focus on being a social network without adding in additional ad-delivery "features." I myself wouldn't count Hacker News as a social network. There isn't anything that caters towards individuals making connections with one another. It's all about short-lasting exchanges between strangers on a given topic. The social aspect is fleeting... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

> Posting too much on social media is a vice Sounds like you'd love https://minus.social/ where you are limited to 100 posts - for life. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

There are a lot of really interesting things on Neocities. Check out their Browse section, enter a tag of anything you're interested in, set the filter, and check out what's there: https://neocities.org/browse I've also been having a lot of fun on minus which is a minimal social network that gives each user a lifespan of 100 posts max: https://minus.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I deployed whoogle search at home. For laptops it is rather easy to define it as the default search for alfred and the respective browser, but for iOS devices I have not found a way (except some rather clunky and intrusive extensions) to change the default search engine beyond what Apple tells you. Is there a way to to this via pfSense or pihole? So whenever someone searches in the address bar in safari on iOS... Source: about 1 year ago

I host an instance of Whoogle Search that I use and never looked back. It's like someone brought Google back to the golden age. No (direct) tracking, no ads, complete control over the results. Source: about 1 year ago

You know what this community needs? Our own community whoogle server. Source: over 1 year ago

Whoogle for the win; https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search. Source: over 1 year ago

I use whoogle with still uses Google under the hood but strips any PII out of the requests, I also run mine on a publicly hosted server. Source: over 1 year ago