Submitted 9 months ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Hello! Today I learned about the existence of LibreY, and the project seems very interesting. I was wondering, how does it compare with SearXNG? which one is easier to self host, and which one is lighter on resource usage? I’m particolary interested in opinions of people who used both
Thanks in advance!
I like SearXNG, I pipe it through a gluetun vpn tunnel to mix up my traffic with others. I turn off google and use a !g bang when really necessary. One of the killer features is setting up blacklists for content farms (see config file) which has helped my dev searches immensly, also bye fandom etc.
Self hosted: I don’t know how I wpuld get others to use it aka more fingerprintable
Publzic: I haven’t found an şnstance that I felt was trustworthy, I am very open to recomendations
I love me a no-js, simple search engine 😋
I’ve only ever self-hosted SearxNG but i wanna try out LibreY. As for who gets rate-linited less, if you self host for yourself plus some friends i’d be surprised if you have Google rate limiting your searches. I didn’t run a problem with mine anyways.
LibeY’s “Framework and JS free” approach is an anti-feature as far as I’m concerned. If you really don’t like those for some reason then sure, but I personally prefer getting a nicer UX with a bit of JS.
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I don’t think it makes sense to self-host these services, unless you plan to open it up for everyone.
tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 9 months ago
Why? The public instances are heavily overloaded, isn’t a private instance faster?
anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Many use SearXNG to get less personalized search and tracking. If hundreds of users appear as one user for the search engine then both tracking and personalization of the results suffer.
Sims@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Hm, I would think users could get good value out grouping search subject and selecting the best engines for their need, and receive a good spread of results from a single search.
…also, our upcoming swarm of personal AI’s might benefit from such a selfhosted search service.
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
The main goal of these projects (SearxNG, Piped, Invidious, Nitter…) is to make it way harder to track users by having thousands of users make requests from one single place. If you host this service just for yourself… you’d get the same tracking as using the service itself.
Self-hosting just for yourself damages the community a bit because your data will not be used to confuse Google and the other guys.