Instead of getting a search service with some ads on the side, you're provided ads with search results sprinkled in

Bing on searxng is shit, yahoo ultimately is bad too, I use this combination, it helps a lot:

In Startpage

Groot

Mojeek

e tools

Fireball

etc....

This doesn't look right:

I use searxng too, it's decent mostly. Check your language settings?

Not even google tries to hide it

I searched up how to stop a stratis pool (Redhat knockoff ZFS) and Google gleefully gave me instructions to destroy the stratis pool, and then claimed there was no way to take down a stratis pool without destroying the data.

I think clicked on the top link which was a RedHat article that told you right from the beginning that it's stratis pool stop --name

Only reason I had to even search was because I didn't have the stratis CLI installed, so no manpage

I hate subs, for any kind of entertainment most of all, but I think they’re necessary for VPN/private email.

I’m adding an another item to that list. Kagi. De-enshittified search results. My partner bought it, so it’s a shared sub, but I’m sold on it. It’s like it’s 2005 again, and that’s a good thing.

Switch to Startpage, it's actually pretty great

to use searx(ng) effectively you'll need to set up your own preferences, not the default

from the screenshot, the instance caches and shows results from bing only, ass.

it also use auto as default which will show personalized language results based on the instance's ip (although it's mainly yours), change that to all

you can do both just by changing and saving your preferences. for example here's mine

I use Qwant search

The language detection is a bit bugged currently. Set default language to "all" in the UI (or set in the config file).

Use startpage or kagi or searxng

I switched to Quant.

Searching "piefed" with Andisearch, it's for me the only acceptable AI (Andi GitHub)

Its Summary

PieFed is a Reddit-like link aggregator and community platform in the Fediverse that launched in 2025[^1]. Users can subscribe to communities, post links, vote, and comment, similar to Reddit but without corporate control[^3].

Key features include:

• Full Mastodon integration for cross-posting and interactions
• De-duplication that combines cross-posts and their comments in one place
• Better moderation tools compared to alternatives like Lemmy
• The ability to port communities between PieFed servers
• Clean, simple codebase written primarily in Python

According to users who have switched from Lemmy, PieFed offers improved user experience and solves many common complaints about other Reddit alternatives[^7]. The platform fully integrates with the broader Fediverse, allowing Mastodon users to participate in discussions by mentioning PieFed communities in their posts[^3].

The flagship instance is hosted at piefed.social, with the project's code maintained on Codeberg[^3][^5].

[^3]: PieFed - Join the Fediverse [^5]: pyfedi - Codeberg [^7]: Lemmy vs PieFed - Lemmy.ca