https://sepiasearch.org

For youtube there is peertube. A big instance it TilVids. It integrates very well with Mastodon!.

It’s not technical and more political.

Google is a surveillance company with a huge impact on web standards thanks to its insane market share. Apple on its side uses its forced monopoly to prevent websites from competing with its app store. Gecko depends on Mozilla that depends on google for 90% of its revenue, and is today a good “look we’re not a monopoly” excuse for google.

I don’t think people want a new engine because the current ones don’t work. They want a new engine because they want the web to be truly open.

It’s developedby Google?

You? I’m not the writer of the post…

Can you please explain what you mean?

That’s why I avoid relying on instances maintained by this type of people and instance gravitate around instances hosted by non-profits I know and trust.

Where I am in France there are multiple very friendly non-profits that are centered around Free software and how digital technologies affect our freedom, who’ve shown to be very open-minded and responsible.

All this drama happened on Mastodon. While user migration is a great feature to have for users, it won’t solve this kind of issues.

There’s no way to transfer accounts afaik

On lemmy for now there is not. But there is on Mastodon and having such a feature in lemmy is just a matter of time.

Text is very light and compresses very well. While instances may risk having scaling issues with photo and video, text should be very easy to archive forever.