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This is why we have https://4get.ca/ https://4get.ca/

userbinator 11mo ago
Your browser, IP or IP range has been blocked from this 4get instance Yeah, no.
ericpruitt 11mo ago
Just a warning that some of the search header images are NSFW. After seeing that they were randomized, I starting going through them and got a dildo for one. EDIT: They've got them listed under an open index on https://4get.ca/banner/ https://4get.ca/banner/ if you want to see them all.
GaryBluto 11mo ago
> 4chan-inspired search engine Why would anybody ever use anything vaguely adjacent to 4chan for anything?
- ffsm8 11mo ago
  4 Chan continues to be the best actually "free"/borderline unmoderated forum to this date. It just comes with the problems that come from allowing it's users to speak whatever they want - anonymously... Hence you usually get everything there, from the most insightful to the most offensive. You might prefer a highly moderated platform such as HN, but 4Chan has it's own strengths if looked at from a natural position
  - Szpadel 11mo ago
    how they deal with plain spam? if it's unmoderated and anonymous why it isn't floating in see of bot generated spam?
    - Alex2037 11mo ago
      it's not entirely unmoderated. some of the rules are being enforced fairly strictly - for example, NSFW images on SFW boards get reported and erased within minutes. blatant spammers, shills, and schizos get dealt with too. only residential IPs can post, which reduces the volume of shit quite a bit. a dedicated schizo can shit up a thread, a coordinated raid can shit up a whole board, but given the ephemeral nature of 4chan, it's like pissing in an ocean of piss. rather, it is politically unmoderated. which is, of course, the pearl-clutching anathema.
      - msla 11mo ago
        Politically unmoderated? Try to be leftist and see how long your posts last. It's pro-Nazi because the moderators can't stand anything else.
        Alex2037 11mo ago
        where, on /pol/? you can be whatever you want except a blatant glowie or an obnoxious schizo.
- culi 11mo ago
  Especially when we've already got searx which accomplishes the same thing and is more transparent
- jasonvorhe 11mo ago
  What a normie question.
1vuio0pswjnm7 11mo ago
4get.ca is just another "metasearch engine" that anyone can "self-host", like https://searx.github.io/searx/ https://searx.github.io/searx/ for example There is no reason one has to use any particular remote instance https://web.archive.org/web/20250801194307if_/https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get/archive/master.zip https://web.archive.org/web/20250801194307if_/https://git.lo... Nor does one have to use a browser in order do "metasearch". For example, I have a script that queries over 60 search engines directly, from the command line, and returns SQL. I can combine results from many sources into custom SERPs comprised of simple HTML for text-only browser, no Javascript, CSS, etc. Unfortunately, pooled search proxies have a finite lifetime, like scroogle.org
Forbo 11mo ago
Reading their about page... > globohomo Yeah, no, fuck that bigoted bullshit and the people who made it.

Your browser, IP or IP range has been blocked from this 4get instance Yeah, no.

Just a warning that some of the search header images are NSFW. After seeing that they were randomized, I starting going through them and got a dildo for one. EDIT: They've got them listed under an open index on https://4get.ca/banner/ https://4get.ca/banner/ if you want to see them all.

GaryBluto 11mo ago

> 4chan-inspired search engine Why would anybody ever use anything vaguely adjacent to 4chan for anything?

ffsm8 11mo ago
4 Chan continues to be the best actually "free"/borderline unmoderated forum to this date. It just comes with the problems that come from allowing it's users to speak whatever they want - anonymously... Hence you usually get everything there, from the most insightful to the most offensive. You might prefer a highly moderated platform such as HN, but 4Chan has it's own strengths if looked at from a natural position
- Szpadel 11mo ago
  how they deal with plain spam? if it's unmoderated and anonymous why it isn't floating in see of bot generated spam?
  - Alex2037 11mo ago
    it's not entirely unmoderated. some of the rules are being enforced fairly strictly - for example, NSFW images on SFW boards get reported and erased within minutes. blatant spammers, shills, and schizos get dealt with too. only residential IPs can post, which reduces the volume of shit quite a bit. a dedicated schizo can shit up a thread, a coordinated raid can shit up a whole board, but given the ephemeral nature of 4chan, it's like pissing in an ocean of piss. rather, it is politically unmoderated. which is, of course, the pearl-clutching anathema.
    - msla 11mo ago
      Politically unmoderated? Try to be leftist and see how long your posts last. It's pro-Nazi because the moderators can't stand anything else.
      - Alex2037 11mo ago
        where, on /pol/? you can be whatever you want except a blatant glowie or an obnoxious schizo.
culi 11mo ago
Especially when we've already got searx which accomplishes the same thing and is more transparent
jasonvorhe 11mo ago
What a normie question.

1vuio0pswjnm7 11mo ago

4get.ca is just another "metasearch engine" that anyone can "self-host", like https://searx.github.io/searx/ https://searx.github.io/searx/ for example There is no reason one has to use any particular remote instance https://web.archive.org/web/20250801194307if_/https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get/archive/master.zip https://web.archive.org/web/20250801194307if_/https://git.lo... Nor does one have to use a browser in order do "metasearch". For example, I have a script that queries over 60 search engines directly, from the command line, and returns SQL. I can combine results from many sources into custom SERPs comprised of simple HTML for text-only browser, no Javascript, CSS, etc. Unfortunately, pooled search proxies have a finite lifetime, like scroogle.org

Forbo 11mo ago

Reading their about page... > globohomo Yeah, no, fuck that bigoted bullshit and the people who made it.