There are still active accounts on lemm.ee?

I am not certain what you mean by online search function. It can connect to the internet but it doesn't exactly function like a search engine from what I can understand.

This is offtopic, but I switched from Alpaca to duck.ai. I try not to use AI too often and even though I like the idea to run it locally, duck.ai is way easier to use.

https://github.com/Jeffser/Alpaca

This will probably help anyone unfamiliar with it, since the first search result for Alpaca AI is another online paid AI service which does something entirely different than this. It's used for AI image generation.

The main question I have is since Ollama is optional... If you optionally use it, is it still sharing data with Facebook Meta?

Taking advantage of the fact that this thread became popular, question to all of you guys: do you recommend some other open source LLM front ends?

I used alpaca but they made some changes recently that made it confusing and a pain to use. I deleted it after that as i dont use ai much anyway.