whats LW?
not yet, maybe they'll add it?
Monero doesn't have most of these problems...
To me, the internet is a place to advertise my inventions, not look at memes.
That comment is there specifically to drive engagement up with all of the people correcting me in the comments.
the goal is to prevent competition, not promote it.
For now we're going to host on residential connections, and if any ISPs ban us, we'll just find other ISPs
Its about reducing attack surface and risk by minimizing dependencies
The frontend is pure HTML and CSS, you can see what its doing with inspect element, all network requests too
Our frontend is open, its just HTML and CSS, nothing proprietary client side, which would piss him off.
To answer your questions in order:
- We have our own index, its not a shitshow of mixed results like Searx tends to be. this also means that we're not chasing breaking changes of some larger engine when they decide they dont want us, like Twitter did to Nitter, and Bing did to Searx.
- We don't know how to monetize. Ads are the only option that we know of, donations do not work at all, as proven by my previous projects.
- We've already got spam prevention and removal measures in place, but I won't discuss them.
- We don't know how to scale it since its centralized by design and the frontend and backend are tightly integrated, largely because the frontend is largely generated on the fly by the backend. Maybe host a copy for each region we're aiming to acquire users from?
- Our engine already understands 5 languages, and we hope to expand to CJK languages soon.
For anyone who asks, we will not open source, but we may offer a licensed self-hosted version for a small yearly fee (maybe $10-20).
I've open sourced everything I've made in the past, and all that's happened is someone with more money picks up my project, outcompetes me, and drives me out of business. I dont want our hard work going to waste.
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