I'm proud to announce the launch of the public beta for Clew, my independent web search engine! ๐๐๐
Try Clew: https://clew.se
Add to your browser: https://clew.se/add/
Clew maintains an independent index and is aiming to be a copyleft (APGLv3), self-hostable, privacy-respecting, customizable search engine which prioritizes independent creators/bloggers/writers and penalizes sites with ads and trackers.
Many features are yet to come. If you'd like to support Clew's development and server costs, you can donate to its Liberapay team: https://liberapay.com/Clew/
Boosts are very welcome, as is feedback of any kind!
Shamar
in reply to The Searchable Amin Hollon :Clew: :Polymaths: • • •Very nice work!
I see the engine is a single #python script that connects to a #PostgreSQL db.
Both are cool technologies but require quite a bit of technical expertise to be self-hosted.
Over the years I've seen that projects based on less cool technologies (php, cgi-bin, sqlite...) enable both #selfhosting and #SAFEhosting, that is using cheap, local, non #BigTech hosting providers.
It's something I realized reading free software based on the #permacomputing values.
Not really a suggestion or a feature request (maybe a note to myself, for a fork when I'll have more free time), but something I think you might consider.
Another one: it would be cool to
... show moreVery nice work!
I see the engine is a single #python script that connects to a #PostgreSQL db.
Both are cool technologies but require quite a bit of technical expertise to be self-hosted.
Over the years I've seen that projects based on less cool technologies (php, cgi-bin, sqlite...) enable both #selfhosting and #SAFEhosting, that is using cheap, local, non #BigTech hosting providers.
It's something I realized reading free software based on the #permacomputing values.
Not really a suggestion or a feature request (maybe a note to myself, for a fork when I'll have more free time), but something I think you might consider.
Another one: it would be cool to enable a sort of federation among the instances, either by simply proxying the trusted instances (and excluding the duplicated urls) on user's search, or by enabling trusted #fediverse users to add websites to be crawled.
"Trust" here is a key concept: federation should be optional and disabled by default.
Anyway: good luck and good work!
And thanks for using a network #copyleft!
(I prefer the #HackingLicense over #AGPLv3 in the age of #GitHubCopilot/CopyALot, but at least AGPL protects the work you donated to the world from direct privatization...)
@selea
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in reply to The Searchable Amin Hollon :Clew: :Polymaths: • • •Joakim Melin
in reply to :debian: ๐๐๐๐๐ :t_blink: • • •The Searchable Amin Hollon :Clew: :Polymaths:
in reply to Joakim Melin • • •Since Iโve only just gone public, currently the process is โsend me a linkโ. ;)
For best results the site should have a RSS/Atom/JSON feed since thatโs how new posts/pages are primarily discovered.
In my plans for this Beta phase is to develop a better site submission process.
Shamar
in reply to The Searchable Amin Hollon :Clew: :Polymaths: • • •Here my blog (mostly political and tech stuffs) https://encrypted.tesio.it/atom.xml
Here the blog of an Italian organization that fought #BigTech in Italy with a certain success before the new fake #PrivacyShield was adopted: https://monitora-pa.it/atom.xml
Both are manually crafted indipendent website (including the feeds), with no tracking or ads.
@joacim @selea
The Searchable Amin Hollon :Clew: :Polymaths:
in reply to Shamar • • •Shamar
in reply to The Searchable Amin Hollon :Clew: :Polymaths: • • •No rush...
@joacim @selea