Their old version with the ‘random’ option is the best way to find random, small, niche sites.

https://old-search.marginalia.nu/search?query=browse:random

so many better Google alternatives out there:

• https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
• https://ecosia.org
• https://searx.space/ (pick any of the 50+ instances)
• https://www.qwant.com/
• https://www.startpage.com/

actually, the way twitter likely works is that you have to pay for your posts to not be suppressed. the game, of course, rigged.

Any we client including Matrix webclient is incredibly vulnerable to the server just injecting JS

That doesn’t preclude fediverse clients from enabling E2EE. A web-client isn’t a requirement.

Like there is no point of E2E encryption in Twitter, Musk can read your messages if you open them on any device he can execute arbitrary code on.

Agreed, nobody should trust twitter, but I would trust most mastodon clients to send encrypted messages, if/when implemented correctly. Does it guarantee that messages will never be read? No, but it does an extra layer that wasn’t there before.

that argument doesn’t hold. you’re letting perfect be the enemy of good-and if you truly believe that, then you wouldn’t be recommending Matrix which has web clients, see https://app.element.io/

why? because it would be cool if only intended recipients are able to view sent messages.

Check out CryptPad.org, it’s:

• Open Source; so it can’t be taken away from you should the org cease to exist.
• Self-hostable; although you can use or pay to use other people’s instances.
• Collaborative; with real-time editing like Google docs
• Federated; so you can collaborate with others whether you’re using a self-hosted instance or using any other server.
• End-to-end encrypted: The server admins can’t see any of your data.

Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.

Can I coin the term imagineomics?

conservative parents are dangerous. to society and their own children