uis ,
@uis@lemm.ee avatar

.eus.

SomethingBurger ,
@SomethingBurger@jlai.lu avatar

.eus is the top-level domain for the Basque language. The abbreviation eus comes from the Basque endonym euskara, meaning "Basque language".

TIL

maxwisecracks ,
@maxwisecracks@lemmy.world avatar

why not use vivaldi if you have to use a chromium-based browser

MashedTech ,

Why Vivaldi?

cashews_best_nut ,
@cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world avatar

Because it's fucking awesome. Here's why I used* to use it:

  • Built in email client
  • Built in RSS reader.
  • Themes and customisable UI (vertical tabs, bottom tags, tab previews, tab stacking)
  • Built in ad blocker
  • Sidebar with Mastodon, RSS, mail, translate, etc

*I use Floorp now cos I wanna support Mozilla/Firefox by upping the browser share numbers but Vivaldi is the best Chromium-based browser by far.

qwerty ,

And people bash brave for being bloated.

cashews_best_nut ,
@cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world avatar

Horses for courses.

HKayn ,
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

Why care which browser they use?

spez OP ,
@spez@sh.itjust.works avatar

It's firefox (well, librewolf) + vivaldi is closed-source.

cashews_best_nut ,
@cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck you spez!

nonfuinoncuro ,

yeah of all the names to choose...

TiffyBelle , (edited )
@TiffyBelle@lemmy.world avatar

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    spez OP ,
    @spez@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Well that part is essentially just chromium so that's why 'vivaldi' (as in what makes slightly different being its ui) is essentially closed source. But yeah that distinction is there.

    capital ,

    This is exactly what comes to mind when some fedi people want to block all the search engines.

    Good answers from real people are what drove everyone to start appending “Reddit” to the end of searches. The rest of the results are SEO trash.

    I’d like to see a lot of that traffic move to lemmy and other fedi stuff and I think letting indexers do their thing is positive.

    Valmond ,

    I made a crude lemmy scanner, but as I'm using the "http api" I'm a bit stuck at servers and instances. Almost 1800 servers and IIRC (I'm on my phone) some 40.000 communities. Yay!

    I know the official api docs, but I don't know how to really use it, just send a json to some server? Would love to have an easy example and I'll go from there (family, work, art, and other gets in the way).

    The goal would be to figure out how to make a search engine without storing the whole lemmyverse locally.

    FOSS obviously.

    StopSpazzing ,
    @StopSpazzing@lemmy.world avatar

    Sounds interesting, what's the size of lemmy stored locally with only text?

    kionite231 ,

    Should be less than a TB.

    Valmond ,

    I don't know as the (cURL http) API I'm using is confusing for messages so I only have the servers & communities.

    If I get it up and running I'll tell :-D

    raspberriesareyummy ,

    it would probablyhelop if the search prompt is not written by a dyslexic... shakes head

    starman2112 ,
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Irony that you could drape over yourself and go to sleep with

    raspberriesareyummy ,

    My excuse being the lemmy android app message editor being bugged, getting out of sync when deleting characters.

    spez OP ,
    @spez@sh.itjust.works avatar

    dude you write verbs like 'shakes head' in your comments.

    raspberriesareyummy ,

    that's not a verb, that's an emote. Considering you chose the dumbest possible username for lemmy, I am not surprised you wouldn't understand that.

    Also: There's a substantial difference to you searching for "anroid" clients and making a post based on those search results.

    spez OP ,
    @spez@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Sorry, unlike you, I have a life. Can't argue over this stupid shit.

    Bishma ,
    @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Kagi has a "Fediverse forums" lens now as well.

    woelkchen ,
    @woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

    Fuck Brave and fucks its owner Brendan Eich.

    Don't promote that despicable company in any way.

    UraniumBlazer ,

    Why what's up with them? Asking cuz I don't know.

    Tywele ,
    @Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Read the links of the comment you are replying to.

    bigMouthCommie ,
    @bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social avatar

    that's not reasonable. provide an argument with supporting links, not links without an argument

    nokturne213 ,
    @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

    Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

    And it is apparently collecting money for YouTubers and not paying them (I did not fully read that article myself)

    UraniumBlazer ,

    Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

    Aight, found this. Apparently the twat donated 1000 dollars to some proposal in California that would ban gay marriage.

    Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

    You know? Honestly, I don't care about that. They're free and open source. They have to make SOME money somehow. Referrals cost the seller rather than the customer. While this does count as an advertisement, it is still very low profile. So uk....I don't really mind that.

    nokturne213 ,
    @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz avatar

    I was reading another comment, apparently they were swapping their referral link in place of your own.

    UraniumBlazer ,

    WAIT, WHAT?!!! That's like cartoon level conning!

    nokturne213 ,
    @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz avatar

    And I agree with you, if they were simply adding their referral link when you did not include one, nbd as long as that is going to support the free browser development. But if they were actually replacing your referral link with their own, that is some Mr. Burns shit for sure.

    Carighan ,
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    Didn't they also click ads when you clicked a link, invisibly in the background?

    pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

    that's pretty much adnauseum except it doesn't prentend

    uis ,
    @uis@lemm.ee avatar

    Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.

    How does it even work?

    cashews_best_nut ,
    @cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world avatar

    Before displaying a page it searches the content and injects a referrer tag to the end of URLs that match certain things. This is done instantly.

    E.g. If there's a Binance URL on the page it'll add something like ?ref=bravebrowser

    Binance will pick up that tag and give them money for any sign ups. Brave do this for any crypto services they have affiliate accounts with.

    cashews_best_nut ,
    @cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world avatar

    has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.

    What an absolute fuck-head

    Delusion6903 ,

    The gay marriage thing is not a good look now, but it's worth noting that he's not trying to abolish it today.

    And the referral link things is also old and it was walked back after it was discovered.

    Choose your tools based on your needs because everyone will have some politics you don't like.

    nokturne213 ,
    @nokturne213@sopuli.xyz avatar

    He may not be trying to abolish it, but he also, to my knowledge has not apologized, or done anything to show he has changed.

    Delusion6903 ,

    As far as I know, you are correct. My main browser is Librewolf and search engine is DDG. But I still use Brave when I rarely need a chromium browser or alternate search engine and he gains nothing from that.

    SloganLessons ,
    @SloganLessons@kbin.social avatar

    As a piece of software, nothing. It’s an open source browser, and has an added bonus of having many privacy settings on by default. Not even firefox can say the same, it comes with telemetry, pocket and whatnot out of the box.

    But there are some fair criticisms about the company and its administration. For example, there was an incident years ago when you signed on a crypto exchange, it would swap the sign on link for their own referral link. They claimed this was an error and quickly patched it, but I don’t buy it.

    You’ll quickly notice that a lot of people on lemmy passionately hate brave. So expect a strong bias and, as a result, truths but overblown, half truths and misinformation. Don’t ignore what they say but double check them.

    EvolvedTurtle ,

    Wait so the same guy owns brave is now firefoxes CEO?

    bigMouthCommie ,
    @bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social avatar

    no. the old ceo owns brave.

    uis ,
    @uis@lemm.ee avatar

    And new CEO fired more devs. Again.

    Blisterexe ,
    @Blisterexe@lemmy.zip avatar

    No, the opposite

    AVengefulAxolotl ,

    While I agree, but i tried Brave Search for a few weeks, and it seemed pretty good.

    I wouldnt use Brave Browser, because Vivaldi is there (if you need Chromium.) But for a search engine which is free? DuckDuckGo maybe?

    P.S. Kagi search is pretty good if you are willing to pay.

    Carighan ,
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    DDG is so bad in results though it makes not using a search engine seem like a solid alternative. I remember that research from a few months ago where they compared Google, Bing and DDG to do statistical analysis of if and how much Google's search results have been getting worse in recent years.

    Result:

    • Google did get worse.
    • However, Bing and DDG got worser, faster.

    The real conclusion was that SEO spam has found ways to optimize that is no longer easy to exclude for search providers. Hence all search is getting shit pretty quickly.

    CatTrickery ,

    A lot of people are complaining about Kagi using Brave as a backend but the alternatives aren't much better. Both Google and Microsoft are BDS for example.

    pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

    nuh uh

    sbv ,

    I'm seeing Lemmy posts on Google results as well.

    moitoi ,
    @moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I see Lemmy on Google too. It surprised me at first but I like that it get indexed.

    MamboGator ,
    @MamboGator@lemmy.world avatar

    I can't wait until we can start appending "lemmy" to our search strings in order to find useful results.

    prettybunnys ,

    Is there a “user reviews” community?

    Steve ,
    @Steve@communick.news avatar

    Kagi does it already.

    !Lemmy [stuff]

    Gets you stuff from all over Lemmy

    Blisterexe ,
    @Blisterexe@lemmy.zip avatar

    yeah but its, like, 5 bucks a month /:

    Steve ,
    @Steve@communick.news avatar

    That's why all the top results on every search are actual results, instead of a bunch of ads.
    Totally worth it.

    JustUseMint ,

    I'm struggling with kagi because I do notike my searches tied to an account/profile (a paid CC and name and address etc.)

    I like kagi but this is making me want to cancel my membership. Thoughts?

    Steve ,
    @Steve@communick.news avatar

    They don't keep a search history. Your searches aren't tied to anything, because they aren't even saved. They don't have any reason to save them since they aren't selling any targeted ads.

    idefix ,

    It's always the same story: are confident are you that this is true?

    Steve ,
    @Steve@communick.news avatar

    My confidence is inversely proportional to any evidence you have to the contrary.

    JustUseMint ,

    This was my understanding as well. It's the point of paying. However , it is just "trust me bro" right? It's not like they've been audited for not storing user data? Even just basic logging too could hold user info. Honestly no idea with paid search engines, I know so little.

    HKayn ,
    @HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

    What incentive would they have to betray your trust?

    kionite231 ,

    More Money!

    Steve ,
    @Steve@communick.news avatar

    Until their users found out.

    Steve ,
    @Steve@communick.news avatar

    Even an audit is really just someone else saying "trust me bro". You have some level of trust.

    macattack ,

    SearXNG has a the same functionality as well for free:
    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/945ee1a7-c842-49e0-94c0-6a908af7d61e.jpeg

    You can self-host it or use one of the publicly available instances.

    spez OP ,
    @spez@sh.itjust.works avatar

    That's great! I had no idea you could specifically search for lemmy content in search engines (albeit niche).

    qaz ,

    I wasn’t able to find an option to use Lemmy search an several public instances. Do you know an instance that supports this?

    macattack ,

    I am self hosting my version so that is where my screenshot came from.

    If I were looking for a public instance to use that has this functionality, I'd look to some of the European hosts as they are less likely to use Reddit as their de facto platform relative to Americans

    qaz ,

    Does self-hosting with those extensions require a lot of system resources?

    macattack ,

    Not in my experience. I am running a docker container and it is one of +10 containers running on my server which is basically a laptop from a few years ago. So far no issues.

    pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

    big fediverse

    PonyOfWar ,

    Odd that it's an obscure Basque instance though. Wonder why it shows that instead of something like world or ml.

    mozz Admin ,
    mozz avatar

    The search engine bots are absolutely powerhouse-obnoxious in how many requests they make, and there a ton of them, and Lemmy's not real optimized to cope with the load -- most big instances block all bot traffic simply as a matter of server survival as a result of that. So I would expect not to see any of them in search results any time in the near future.

    HKayn ,
    @HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

    Search engines currently struggle with the concept of federated posts. My guess is that instead of finding a post's home instance, they accept the first mirror of that post and discard copies from all other instances through deduplication.

    spez OP ,
    @spez@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Here's the link for anyone who wants a quick check - https://search.brave.com/search?q=mastodon+android+clients

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