Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google.
I use a mix of DuckDuckGo and Kagi. I’ll also use ChatGPT, which can be good if you’re careful to verify the answers it gives you as a check against hallucinations. It’s useful for short, direct answers without ads or SEO bullshit.
This article on Ars (and if you’re not a subscriber, you absolutely should be, as they are the best tech journalists out there) inspired the question: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/google-admits-reddit-protests-make-it-harder-to-find-helpful-search-results
Fucking Reddit. Enshittification ruins everything.
Is this like when people say arch is fun?
Seeing as I absolutely hate using arch linux (sorry to those who like it I guess) I would say no.
There is even one script that does all the work for you, so it’s dead simple.
To compare, PeerTube was a bit more of a slog with many steps and a few chances to break things (the fun happened when I had to uninstall the official npm because despite the installer saying it would install 16.x, it installed 18.x, and that really upset PeerTube). I then had to use nvm, and that was fine until a step failed as I forgot to soft link my local npm binary to /usr/bin or something like that.
tldr: please for goodness sakes fediverse, make your setup scripts a once and done affair!!!