Yingwu

I really dislike this argument. Just because it's "their country, their rules" doesn't not make it an issue? Especially when it comes to privacy concerns. Privacy concerns are universal. There are a plethora of serious issues that are not defended by "national sovereignty". If that was the case we should just turn a blind eye to North Korea, right?

Yes, because niche communities are much smaller here if not non-existant. Communities about Classical Chinese, poetry, various academic humanities subjects and the like isn't exactly thriving on here. I try to use the fediverse when I'm able to though, and also try to support smaller communities, but yeah..

If you have an account you can use a VPN. Never had trouble

For a while? Our business used it until ... this year. It's finally EOL this year.

I use Jellyfin in conjunction with Kodi. Basically I only have Kodi as front-end, as it treats subtitles better than the Jellyfin client does. Works great.

At least there's still the EU limiting the power of these companies, I guess..

No one ever questions these things. "It's for the kids!" is the one argument that'll lead us all to damnation.

Hasn't RSS support been dropping these last few years? Last I heard was that RSS was dying, though I don't know how true that is.

Does lemmy and other fediverse stuff currently have such a huge bot problem?

It seems really great actually. Thanks for the rec. Might selfhost it. But I also get the argument of Kagi if one doesn't want to rely on the search results of Google/Bing/DDG or whatever. Even if I definitely prefer FOSS.

Thanks, I definitely prefer this alternative. How does searxng work in general?

Kagi has definitely been on my radar, but it sounds a bit weird (for lack of a better word) to pay for search. I've never even thought about it. Maybe it's worth it...