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  • Made me feel a little unwell at the beginning as well, but considering that the search is one of the main, key features o use daily, multiple times it is totally worth it.

    I pay for a search engine, but:

    • High quality search results
    • No ads
    • High customizability
    • No weird SEO optimized Website results which help me not at all and I lose hours in a year clicking them by accident
    • Did I mention no ads or sponsored content?

  • Kagi, hands down, is by far the best search engine I’ve ever used (next to Neeva, which got bought and shut down).

    Just simple searches like “Best gaming headphones” or “Realtek Driver Download” and comparing them with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, etc. shows how the quality of the results are far superior.

    And you can directly define, which sites you’d like to see higher / more results of or less - or even completely block or pin them to the top.

    Also, it also shows you directly, before visiting a site, in colors if a site has a very high number of ads and/or trackers.

    And they support for power users custom CSS to adjust everything, URL rewrites (e.g. change all Reddit URLs to old.reddit), DDG and custom bangs, and much more.

    Very satisfied with it, can only recommend.





  • Nankeru@feddit.detoTechnology@lemmy.mlOverwhelmed a bit with fediverse redundancy.
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy is more of a Reddit alternative, where you have the focus on communities/categories (similar to “subreddits”) to which you can subscribe to, while Mastodon is more a Twitter alternative, focusing on users to follow.

    Kbin is actually slightly special. It is running on the Fediverse network, which can communicate with multiple other services. Meaning, it can show you content from all Lemmy instances (called Threads) and content from Mastodon (Microblog). You can see this thread there as well. In addition, it supports even more of the so-called “ActivityPub” services, like Pleroma or Peertube.

    By using Kbin, you have access to both worlds, Lemmy and Mastodon, in addition to other services.