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But this... does put a smile on my face (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context:

Somebody made a post promoting the proprietary search engine they are working on, claiming in the post that it "would make Stallman smile". In a comment below the post they said that they made the statement about Stallman to "drive engagement". The post was later removed for promoting proprietary software.

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At the top is a screenshot from the modlog saying:

Removed Post We're building a search engine to compete with DuckDuckGo. No JS, no WASM, no spying. Just a statically generated results page.
reason: Comm rule 2: Don’t promote proprietary software

Below that is an image of Stallman smiling.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean why even when Stract is a thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And that is...? First google result is something for google sheets, second result is a plugin for Chrome to extract data from ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

https://github.com/StractOrg/stract

Don't know enough to give a testimony on it. Majority or codebase is FOSS afaik. Sorta passed the sniff test? Free API is nice and works well, that's enough for my purposes.