That is awesome! This is why Lemmy is the best social media site. Thanks @reddig33@lemmy.world for the resource!

Ayo?

In the words of Ubisoft we need to feel “comfortable with not owning your game”. If buying is not owning then piracy is not stealing.

Got any recommended resources for piracy sites/lists?

Same! And lemmy has provided the highest quality answers on the internet in my opinion.

Due to how important search is, it is not a stable solution to place the trust of the technology, your data privacy, and fair pricing to a corporation. Kagi so far seems great don’t get me wrong! But enshitification from monetary incentives almost always occur. Open source search is the only stable long term solution.

Conflict of interest is the best explanation. The goal of search engine companies is not to provide information as efficiently as possible but rather something else entirely.

A lack of competition is another factor as well with the monopolization of Google, Microsoft, etc. There may exist better search engines, but the average joe, and even some of us, have trouble finding them. The quality search engines don’t get a chance to expand and or are bought out like with Altavista (Regarded as the best search engines from the golden age). For example, crowdview.ai is the best search engine (outside of kagi from what I’ve heard) but I’m unsure if they will be able to stay afloat for a long enough time to get a chance to expand and take shots at Google.

The enshitification has been a gradual process. Think of it as slowly boiling a frog. I’ve observed the quality of search slowly degrading over the past 2 decades. Just recently, it has gotten to such a severe point that searching has been useless.

I found the original GPT-4 to be great at technical search questions! Though unfortunately the quality has been getting worse ever since.

Wiby is great! I love using it to discover sites. It’s very similar to spirit of search engines from the early internet. Though it’s not a general search engine it has its specialized uses so I thought I’d mention it

Thanks! Search results have recently been so bad that I found Yandex sometimes offers better results than Duckduckgo/Google/Bing etc. It’s quite sad actually

This is why I love Lemmy! We are all nerds

Haha I can just see it. “As an AI language model, actually Quantum Barn Mechanics forbids this”

More technically, the barn’s immense mass cause positive Anti-de Sitter spacetime curvature locally. All light rays emitted from the barn are stretched as a result as they follow their world lines. In fact, barns further away are said to be expanding faster and faster. Some even speculate the expansion of the universe is increasing exponentially as a result of these barns. This is known as the Theory of Quantum Barn Gravity.

It’s very sad indeed that this is the “best”. The only thing better would probably be specific youtubers who go get news sources for themselves. But I’m not aware of many.

Improvethenews is a collection of all news sources and provides all sides of an argument. This is one of the best news aggregators.

https://www.improvethenews.org/

Thank you so much for your answer!

I know right? Valve keeps raising the bar so high you wonder how it can be topped. I can’t wait for Half Life 3!

Half Life is awesome! If I had to choose from all the games I’ve played, the half life series has to be best in my opinion. There are so many small details and world building elements in each half life game that it really does make it feel like you are in the game. And then there is Half Life: Alyx…

It was so immersive, I smashed by head against the wall trying to run away from something lol

Not a channel, but some resources. The addons are all open source. Also unfortunately many subreddits that had quality channel suggestions have been either banned due to being “unmoderated” or are lost to time. Please post any finds here or help archive them if you can. The Datahorders community is a great place to start!

• DeArrow - Better Titles and Thumbnails on YouTube
• Sponsorblock
• Return YouTube Dislikes
• uBlock Origin

List of resources to find more gems. Note many posts and subreddits have been lost/banned/removed. Here are the ones I found.

• https://old.reddit.com/r/mealtimevideos/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/WoahTube/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWereOnVideo/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/

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