Hi! I am Tommi, I am interested in sociological repercussions of technological and political decentralization.
Very happy to be here.
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Welcome @tommi 
your website is actually in my bookmarks, big fan of the design; you’ve talked on it about how you have little time, same here, but I intend to build my own digital garden soon enough, or should I say “plant?” 
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Richard here, I’ve been programming with Mojeek since 2018 and have been interested in search since setting up a website biology-online.org in the late 90s.
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Hi, I’m Marc the founder and initial developer of Mojeek.
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Hi, I’m Brad. Back in the '90’s I built several niche web directories. I still dabble in that a bit. In the 00’s I was a moderator on a couple of small SEO forums. I guess I’ve always been interested in how people discover pages on the web be it search engines, directories or other means. I’m also very interested in privacy issues on the Internet.
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Great to have you here @Brad if you want to direct your experience to a question we’ve been thinking on recently, this one: Search Choices - Your Input Sought it would be much appreciated 
Hi, I’m Nova. I’m interested in search engines and privacy and I’ve been using Mojeek for quite a while now.
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Hi, I’m Techie from Finland.
Search engines, privacy, security, hosting, networking, administration, programming. Seriously overloaded at times.
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kia ora, greetings all !
am an independent journalist aka unemployed freelancer 
Based in New Zealand now, I was raised 29 years in the Cook Islands, a micro-state in the same timezone as Hawaii - but south not north of the equator. Do a lot of volunteer work for media non-profits, and focus on #corruption, #governance, and how #tech furthers both in good and bad ways.
Only just learnt yesterday that Mojeek has it’s own search directory so got very intrigued - had seen it previously but thought it was just another google/bing/yahoo offshoot.
I hope to encourage Mojeek to look at news as a point of difference to other engines - we don’t really need six year old Windows press release, for example - we need reviews from reliable news sources about the latest Linux?
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Greetings @jasonbrown1965, it’s great to have you here and, as News is something we’re looking to work on our offering of very soon your input is going to be invaluable, I am sure 
Welcome @jasonbrown1965 
New Zealand has been top of my bucketlist for far too long. Hopefully I can make it there on a, well overdue, next trip to see my brother and family in Oz.
Great that you are working for media non-profits. Plenty of stuff to write about on #corruption, #governance, bad tech and #adtech! Speaking of the latter a big case was won against adtech yesterday in EU: in case interested two articles by the experts in these quote tweets https://twitter.com/ColinHayhurst/status/1489145414595002373 and https://twitter.com/mojeek/status/1489149277679099904
Good luck in finding paid work. Of course, if you know of anyone one looking for a good tech story, or you wanted a heads-up from us …
kia ɔɾa
Hello, I’m Frank
I think that it was 1992 that I bought the book "Teach Yourself Turbo Pascal 6.
Fast forward from then to now, I’m peddling two programs that I’ve spent the past few years “perfecting”. zapdex.com and zaptheater.com
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Welcome @floughry, it’s great to have you here. I’m sure that that amount of time and experience spent working on Web technologies means you’ll find conversations here useful, and we’ll definitely find having you here beneficial too.
Thank you for starting Mojeek
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Dear Team Mojeek,
I’m an enthusiast. I now have Mojeek as my start page in both Firefox and Vivaldi; it is my primary search engine in my search options for both browsers. I just love finding new things and not being directed to a product. Your recent alternative search is nice for those times your engine is a little too far off the beaten path. I prefer Ecosia and Startpage although I would love to see Swisscows…I’ll post in the right channel for that recommendation. The rest, google, bing, yandex…I’m unwilling to give any attention unless absolutely necessary and it has not been necessary for quite some time thanks to you and a few others.
Further, I know it is not always practical, but I do appreciate the green emphasis; I also LOVE the minimalist look.
Finally, given my lack of tech savvy, I like to support projects I use regularly (e.g. joplin) or want to see succeed. I look forward to some Mojeek merch or perhaps an opencollective option to donate a little every month.
Thank you Team Mojeek for some fresh air,
JP
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Welcome @jppelt, it’s always great to talk to people who are enthusiastic about Mojeek and finding new things is our specialty!
Thanks for the pointer on Swisscows, and also for suggestions on donations/merch; on the latter, I’m doing some work to get something together currently as it seems that a lot of people would like to get their hands on some. The first thing we need to sort is to find a provider who meets our standards for some kind of online store. We wear our values on our sleeves and so it has to be the right supplier for us to put it out there.
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Hello,
I am just an average user with an interest in all things privacy related and adjacent. I do not program and I pay the bills as a professor at a business school teaching subjects like English and Marketing.
Many years ago I switched to Linux and about 2 years ago I began degoogling my life and trying to increase my digital privacy. I dabbled in self-hosting but now my blog is hosted on Codeberg. I discovered the Fediverse and I see at least one name here on the community I recognise.
About 2 weeks ago I rediscovered Mojeek and I have been using it daily since. So, I will have questions and suggestoons soon.
Bobby (bbbhltz)
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Welcome @bbbhltz, very happy to hear about the rediscovery and please do ask and suggest whenever something comes up!
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