The main reason is that there is no single Linux operating system. Linux basically is just the kernel. Every thing else around this kernel, like tools, applications and libraries, is highly customisable and exists in form of various forms of Linux operating system distributions. The fact that these distributions are very different from each other makes it almost impossible to certify industrial products for „the Linux“ operating system. There are just too many variations of it.

I have been using Firefox ever since. Never really had a reason to switch to something else.

When I had a look on it a while ago they didn’t support Docker Compose. But except this it’s a drop in replacement.

Only during the night when I am asleep.

I use Reeder on iOS and Mac.

Yes, that limited number of included searches is my only criticism I have with Kagi. They are aware of this, and are trying to offer customers more searches for the same price by improving their costs. I am glad they decided to do this by reducing their costs and have decided to not go the road of monetizing their users by selling ads and customer data.

However, I try to use Kagi only for serious search requests. For other very trivial searches, I use Startpage. For me, works OK. But I hope that one day Kagi offers enough searches, so I can just use it everywhere as my default search engine without thinking about it.

Kagi. Very happy with it. Best $5 it recently invested. Gives me much better results than Google and all the others.

Germany, yes we do drink water without boiling it directly from the tap. Tap water must in general have drinking water quality across the country. However, even it may not be a health risk, some people don’t like the taste. Where I live, it tastes very good.

Problem is that this kind of alternative web interfaces for Google are just going web scraping of the regular www.google.com page. They are not using the Google Search API (which is paid and requires an API key). However, Google says scraping of their search results is not allowed. And they are actually preventing it by blocking IPs doing too many search request in certain amount of time. That is the main reason a lot of Searx or SearxNG instances stop working after a certain time.

I didn’t know Discord also has a weird CEO?!

I do understand that if companies running ad-supported models, they need to make sure users are actually watching those ads. Seems logically to me - no ads mean no money, and no money means no sustainable business model.

On the other side, as a user, I just can’t browse the internet without an ad-blocker any more. They just got so annoying and sometimes even break the actual website.

But to be honest, I don’t see an alternative to ad-supported models except paying money directly via subscriptions plans etc. But this also will not work in the long term. I just can’t pay afford to pay a subscription for each website I visit during the day.

Don’t get lost implementing fancy features at the beginning, concentrate on supporting what the Lemmy web UI does and try to provide a smooth and pleasant experience on iOS.

In case you’re looking for inspiration would highly recommend to take a look at the Ice Cubes client for Mastodon. An extremely well made app.