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John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed (lemmy.ca)

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It's brief, around 25:15

If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

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[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago

Yeah, odd inclusion. Duckduckgo is indeed a search enginge, but it's essentially just a front end for Bing.

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Sadly yes :( i've been keeping an eye on mojeek, hopefully it'll get better.

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Very interesting, thanks for telling me - i recall them sharing your IP with bing/google? but since they're building their own, this may change. I'll keep an eye on this, thank you