Was it MetaCrawler? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler

SearXNG is the spiritual successor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG

https://archive.md/L75Eq

The right wing populist party sanseito and rise of populist policies is also driven by younger voters (below 50) in Japan. For those who don’t follow Japanese politics closely, the Liberal Democratic Party has been in power for decades and moves in what ever direction it needs to to maintain power. Far right Sanseito influenced Japanese politices enough since 2020 to push Japan in that direction, because the LDP just absorbs the platform of contenders.

Disenfranchised voters below 50 in a country that’s be stagnant or declining for 35 years. Not just elderly like you might think. Now the boogeyman scapegoat is foreigners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanseitō

"The speech of the party is emotionally rather than logically appealing. Therefore, they appeal to the sensibilities of the politically inexperienced and have increased their support.

According to Japanese political analyst Hiroo Hagino, the party is supported by the younger population, who have become disappointed with politics centred on the elderly. According to a JNN survey, a higher proportion of young people voted for Sanseitō in the last election than other demographics. Some Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) officials expressed worry that they might lose votes because both parties have conservative policies. Most of the Sanseitō voters did not support the Kishida government. The appeal of Sanseitō among young people is partly linked to the social crisis Japan is currently experiencing. Growing inequality due to slowing growth since the 1990s and persistent inflation, which is eroding purchasing power, have dampened the hopes for the future of younger generations, many of whom do not have permanent jobs."

The “consumer staples” index fund needs renaming. Rice and beans 🚀🌕💎🦍

Speedrunning the Idiocracy future while we offload cognition to a black box.

https://lemmy.world/post/41022485

https://piefed.social/post/956553

“Due to feedback from a wider audience than before, some of the idiosyncratic features that I built because of my personal obsessions have been made optional and OFF by default, such as the 4chan meme filter, meme communities being flagged as ‘low quality’ and so on”

The piefed dev made some biased decisions, owned up to their mistakes, fixed it, but lost the trust of many users.

This is what drove me off of piefed and back to a lemmy instance.

One more issue: https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

Again, straight from the dev:

"You can be pretty sure anyone with 1488 or even just 88 in their user name is a nazi, for example.

Speaking of which, PieFed has an optional approval queue for new registrations. New accounts with “88” in their name are always put in a different /dev/null queue that leads nowhere. The UI tells them they’re waiting for approval but that approval will never come."

So the dev is shadowbanning people born in 1988 or of asian descent that like the number 888888

https://sonofchina.com/what-does-888-mean-in-chinese/

This type of hamfisted moderation turned many people off of the platform.

dev politics and dev opinions. Pick whichever you like it doesn’t matter.

Kbin is dead Mbin is the successor, both have lemmy (reddit-like) and mastodon (twitter-like) capabilities. You can submit a “tweet” and a “post” from the same platform and browse both lemmy and mastodon content.

Lemmmy is the activitypub version of reddit. PieFed is Lemmy but with the ability to see all comments and cross-posts of the same link or post, all collapsed into a single post and single thread to scroll through.

Beehaw deserves its own mention because of how cut off it is from the rest of the fediverse, its its own little walled garden, protected from all the baddies out there in the world.

All the rest is just drama surrounding the devs of all the platforms, and either their questionable political views (lemmy) or their questionable platform moderation views (piefed). So the platforms keep splintering as well as the instances on each platform. Which is a good thing its part of the fun of the fediverse.

TLDR:

• Lemmy is reddit-like with controversial developers (political views).
• Piefed is Lemmy with cross-posts collapsed to one thread, and controversial developers (moderation defaults).
• Mbin is Lemmy (reddit-like) plus mastodon (twitter-like).
• Kbin is dead.

“Moves are underway to take RISC-V to a new level. The association is collaborating with Linux to create an open-source trinity of software, ISA and hardware.”

Great stuff! Please do linux phones too!