OK, I still use Youtube a lot; Peertube just doesn't have enough content, or a way to search said content, to keep my brain busy. Problem is, every decent search engine out there just straight up shares your IP with Google when you use them, so Google still knows more about me than I would like it to. I mostly just watch recommended videos, but my search engine history is often much more idiosyncratic. And yet, of course, my Youtube results always get super excited anytime I search something new via DuckDuckGo or whatever.
I was about to make a post about how I'm gonna host my own #
searx now, because all the instances I knew of were in Germany or whatever so only gave me German results...and then thought, wait a sec, there's probably a place I can look for SearxNG in Canada, and sure enough, yeah.
https://searx.space/Maybe I'll still do it down the road just for kicks, and maybe to give people more than just two options for Canadian SearxNG servers, but for now
https://searxng.shreven.org/ seems cool. I feel stupid for not considering this ages ago.
