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What instance are you using?
Not the person you replied to, but: my own on my server. Con: I have to do the administration. Pro: I started using it, noted my preferred default settings and just set those as a server side default where possible. Also I have full control over which engines are enabled per default and which are available generally.
Took me a bit to tweak it, though.
Damn, is it actually Eivith? Thanks for all the support help in the Matrix chat
Yes, im in the Matrix chat - thanks!
That's really cool. Very daunting a task to go through with
Assuming you do have a place to host it (even at home on your PC, or an old PC, not necessarily reachable from the internet), and assuming you know a bit about docker, it's quite easy actually.
Where it all started for me: https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker
Note that the example above in the beginner variant uses Caddy as a webserver which - by default - assumes you're running it on a server that can be publicly reached from the internet and won't start up correctly otherwise - e.g. at home - unless you change some config.
I'm the least techy person on Lemmy. Couldn't possibly do any of that. But I really appreciate the effort you put in for the advice. Thanks!
There are 2 instances that use anti bot features that I could find. That is https://search.canine.tools/ and https://search.fredix.xyz/
Personally, the fastest and most reliable in my opinion are https://priv.au/ and https://searx.tiekoetter.com/ I used to use Tiekoetter's instance for nearly a year before I hosted my own. Otherwise I would recommend checking here: https://searx.space/
With that said, I still didn't answer your question, because I am hosting my own instance, but I would not recommend joining unless you really want to. I'm going to move it to central Europe, it's currently hosted in Romania.
Self hosters impress me. Thanks for the recommendations, I've been confused about what to try for a while
Just tried priv.au and like it better than my current instance. Just moved. Thanks for the recommendation