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title: 'Thanks for the fish'
url: 'https://h3artbl33d.nl/blog/thanks-for-the-fish'
markdown: 'https://h3artbl33d.nl/blog/thanks-for-the-fish.md'
date: '2025-07-27'
description: 'As some of you might reckon, I ran a number of privacy-friendly services, front-ends for big tech platforms: the already defunct Nitter for Twitter/X, Jouwbuis for Youtube, Redlib for Reddit and Koekel/Searx for search engines. But no more. It has become way too much of a constant cat and mouse gam…'
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# Thanks for the fish

As some of you might reckon, I ran a number of privacy-friendly services, front-ends for big tech platforms: the already defunct Nitter for Twitter/X, Jouwbuis for Youtube, Redlib for Reddit and Koekel/Searx for search engines. But no more. It has become way too much of a constant cat and mouse game and the instances had more issues than they were actually available for use.

This will free both some time and mindspace on my side, that I like to throw at the Fediverse and actually building stuff that is the future, rather than fighting big tech that won't be around anymore in a couple of decades. It has been a wild ride - but the time has come to step up and do the right thing - contributing towards humanity, rather than wasting it on ductaping the shit of big tech gazillionares together.

There are some alternatives:

- Reddit/Redlib: [list of public instances](https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md) - can be selfhosted relatively easy, including on OpenBSD
- Youtube/Jouwbuis: Piped ([list of public instances](https://github.com/TeamPiped/documentation/blob/main/content/docs/public-instances/index.md), can be selfhosted through Docker), Cloudtube ([official instance](https://tube.cadence.moe/), can be selfhosted on OpenBSD, [docs](https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/tube-docs)), Invidious ([list of public instances](https://docs.invidious.io/instances/), [can be selfhosted](https://docs.invidious.io/installation/)). The most sustainable model is to use a client - in order to prevent Youtube blocking due to too much concurrent traffic. A good client for Android is [PipePipe](https://pipepipe.dev) and [Yattee](https://github.com/yattee/yattee) for Apple devices. The latter one does need some configuration.
- Search: SearXNG ([list of public instances](https://searx.space), can be selfhosted), Whoogle ([list of public instances](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search)).

Thank you for the fish - and hoping we'll meet again in a brighter future without big tech silos.

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