🇳🇱 Snoezelpoes

Well that’s a bummer, but at least the company who owns Startpage will remain in the Netherlands for now it seems.

https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4521498779156-What-it-means-for-Startpage-now-that-System1-is-a-publicly-traded-company

Paid unfortunately also means that it’s way harder to convince anyone to use it, even though the price seems very low for what you get. The other problem that brings is that I don’t know what I’m buying exactly until I bought it.

Startpage gives very good results, I recall reading somewhere that they use search results from Google, but I honestly don’t know. I use it over Ecosia because it has slightly better results and is more privacy focused. Plus I never click any adverts, so Ecosia wouldn’t generate an awful lot of trees from my usage haha.

I also used Qwant, but the search results weren’t great for more complex search queries.

It’s true that the monetisation of everything is pretty awful, but it’s one of the most important reasons to join a platform for content creators whether we like it or not.

The main reason to join a platform for a creator is the amount of the potential viewers, which of course don’t increase much without new content creators. Therefore Peertube needs a secondary reason for creators to join, which it doesn’t seem to have.

If anything, joining Peertube will in theory decrease their income, which actually gives them a reason to not join :(