Absolutely mind blown today. Found a website that summarizes terms of service for lots of services out there such as Facebook, Reddit, Amazon and others; ranking them from grade A, very good, to grade E, awful. Take a look and you might be shocked by some of the stuff we all miss because we don't read TOS. Needless to say, this is going in my important sites list. https://tosdr.org. Additionally, you can follow @ToSDR which is the official account for the site.

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Vaughn

· February 12, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via DW Innovation

#Stract is a new, #opensource, #nonprofit #search engine. It has a lot of interesting functions. For example, users can exclude known copycat sites from search queries, focus on indie blogs, or do fediverse search only.

You can test Stract over here:
https://stract.com

And check out the repo on #GitHub:
https://github.com/StractOrg/stract

There's also an interesting article on Stract by @404mediaco:
https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time

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Vaughn

· February 8, 2024 · 1 minute to read

Reblog via Joseph Cox

New from 404 Media: This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build." https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

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Creative Technologist working in the Themed Entertainment and live events worlds. I've been part of the Fediverse since 2016, moved to my own instance from mastodon.social, and then in May of 2025 I moved to my own GoToSocial instance. I use Wordpress with ActivityPub (this) as my primary posting space.

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Synth Riders - October 9, 2024
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Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours - Lemmy.World - October 21, 2024
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Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff | Open Library - October 14, 2025
The Bezzle - November 18, 2024
A hologram for the king by Dave Eggers | Open Library - February 23, 2024
Red Team Blues - November 23, 2023
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest To Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology - October 8, 2023

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Planche Progression - October 20, 2025
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