We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

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    11 hours ago

    Wouldn’t it be great to have a search engine that would bring up sites and services like those in this thread, and exclude enshittified trash like youtube, amazon, etc etc.

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      4 hours ago

      Edit: Stract.com it is what Google was like in early 2000s. It’s not perfect, but its free till the dude dev running it in his basement needs paid support

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        7 hours ago

        If only they didn’t pay Yandex, a company affiliated with Russian govt

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          7 hours ago

          It comes down to the fact that Kagi’s first priority in search is providing the best results, so they’re not going to turn down access to another search api based on politics.

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        10 hours ago

        Good point. I would prefer to crowdsource the whitelist I think. Also, it would be cool to do stuff like search youtube but bring up a link to a dis-enshittified youtube intermediary.

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          9 hours ago

          That is also something you can do with Kagi. 😆 I have it set up so that all YouTube results redirect me to Invidious, as well as Reddit and Twitter for their respective frontends.