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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • The thing is, at least in my experience, google is better. On avarage it takes me less time to find what I want on google than ddg. Yes I’m sure part of that is using google for a very long time, but there is one HUGE thing google has that ddg doesn’t: Quotation and minus search amendments. With google, if I can’t find what I’m looking for, add “” around it, and if something unrelated is showing up, use - The solution on ddg? Guess a different set of words to use, until you get it right. If ddg added this, I think I’d switch over entirely.


  • I don’t really know the legalitys, but there’s a few things in elons way:

    1. Whoever has control over Lemmy would have to be willing to sell it, pretty sure Elon couldn’t take over lemmy like he did twitter
    2. It’s open source, how/can does one even turn something like lemmy closed-source?
    3. If it was made closed source by Elon, what of the forks that already exist? Can anything be does to threaten their ongoing existence?

    I don’t know the answers to 2&3, but I’m pretty sure 1 holds true; Elon can’t buy something if the owner refuses to sell.