In general, to everyone who finds Yacy as an interesting project, just give it a try!

It’s relatively light weight, and having millions of pages indexed does not take that much disk space, in my case: 3.5 million indexed pages is around 200 gigabytes only.

Yacy is far from perfect, and it’s an ancient project. But it’s still alive and kicking strong!

Hi!

I’ve been selfhosting Yacy for some years, even tho I rarely use it (I’m mostly using Kagi these days).

But some tips:

• Set up something like this to your browser, this sends Yacy to crawl pages that you visit https://github.com/JeremyRand/YaCyIndexerGreasemonkey .
• Get familiar with blacklists and try to find some public ones to filter out bad sites and adult content.
• Tinker with Ranking & heuristics -> Solr boosts to get results that fit your use case more.
• And in general, tinker with all the settings you can find!

And not directly Yacy related, but you can use your own Yacy through Searxng as well, even in ‘private’(non P2P) mode.

Prediction: This change comes to life, people make an uproar about this. Then they forget this in a few days and continue using reddit.

This same old keeps happening with reddit, Twitter/X, etc.

Hopefully we do receive some refugees to Lemmy!

Squid games reference. (or from one of the knockoff’s)