That’s fair, but I was talking about online payments for digital goods, such as VPSes, vpns, donations, etc.

Also, let’s say irl stores adopted cryptocurrency as a payment method. Your bank wouldn’t know what you’re buying and therefore wouldn’t be able to sell that information.

Just one, the only relatively tech-savvy person I know irl

Private online (or maybe even offline) payments with Monero. And even if it’s not monero, you don’t have to deal with the BS of banks, such as the transactions taking days to complete. And nothing is tied to your real identity, making you entirely anonymous.

Or SearXNG. I run an instance, you can check it out: search.gregtech.eu

catbox.moe. And it’s free, though you can donate.

I set up a bridge on my home network. I’ll put the relay on my Hetzner VPS.

Ooooh this is a pretty cool tool, I’ll set up the docker container on my homelab

I’m just curious here, what if a large instance (like lemmy.world for example) says that anyone federating with instance X gets defederated? They would miss out on a lot of interactions.

If you’d like you can contact me on my Threema ID at 6CH24JJE so we can troubleshoot this in my group on Threema.

Your experience with threema is… weird? For me both of those things work perfectly. Much better than Element, for example.

What’s issue do you see with it? It’s cryptographically secure and has been audited. The fact that it’s centralized doesn’t really matter.

Threema is also really good, and they’re very close to the full release of the desktop app.

There we go, I have the favicons set up. Sorry for the intermittent downtime, I was doing some configuration.

You gotta mount the image to the place where searxng accesses it, like this in docker compose:

volumes:
      - ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw
      - type: bind
        source: ./images/searxng.png
        target: /usr/local/searxng/searx/static/themes/simple/img/searxng.png

I can set up a favicon resolver on my instance. I’ll do it today.

I mean, none of that content is on my server, and the search engines searxng indexes probably so their best to remove illegal stuff.

I really hope I don’t get in trouble for anything, but I doubt I will. I have a grand Total of like 5 users.

I guess I could technically do that, but I really don’t give a f what people search for on my searxng instance. Plus, Google and the likes have an incentive to use your searches for advertising and building a profile on you.

Double penetration? /s

I host my own SearXNG instance, which miiiight be a bit of a bad idea because the anonymity of the crowd disappears but hosting your own services is way too cool to ignore. It’s at search.gregtech.eu in case anyone wants to use it.

No, you didnt.