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  • I know it’s not the thing you likely want to hear, but… At this point, I’m glad I switched to a paid search engine (Kagi).

    Theoretically, there’s nothing stopping them from enshittifying down the road. But at least for now (and hopefully the future) they are a great search engine.

    They have their own index (so no relying on google/bing), and it actually works as I remember Google working 7+ years ago. Minus the ads, and plus a ton of flexibility permanently boosting/removing sites from your searches, auto-grouping/ignoring listicle-type articles in results, flagging sites as AI slop and punishing them for it,…

    They even have a fediverse search “lense” that actually works really well to search Lemmy/mastodon/…

    I just realized I sound like a paid shill. Sorry about that. I’m not.



















  • Not arguing that. Of course there’s worse things.

    But you must also acknowledge that it’s trivial to make this a non-issue. For example, I’ve seen lots of places where the door opens outwards with a kick. Or, even better (if slightly less space efficient) just have no door at all, and instead a short entrance with two 90 degree turns.

    I think this is something that more and more places do anyways, basically any modern-ish place I’ve been to in recent years do the no-door-thing.