Made me feel a little unwell at the beginning as well, but considering that the search is one of the main, key features I use daily, multiple times, it is totally worth it.

I pay for a search engine, but:

• High quality search results
• No ads
• High customizability
• No weird SEO optimized Website results which help me not at all and I lose hours in a year clicking them by accident
• Did I mention no ads or sponsored content?

Kagi, hands down, is by far the best search engine I’ve ever used (next to Neeva, which got bought and shut down).

Just simple searches like “Best gaming headphones” or “Realtek Driver Download” and comparing them with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, etc. shows how the quality of the results are far superior.

And you can directly define, which sites you’d like to see higher / more results of or less - or even completely block or pin them to the top.

Also, it also shows you directly, before visiting a site, in colors if a site has a very high number of ads and/or trackers.

And they support for power users custom CSS to adjust everything, URL rewrites (e.g. change all Reddit URLs to old.reddit), DDG and custom bangs, and much more.

Very satisfied with it, can only recommend.

Oh yes… And I hate it. I see every little flaw in movies, games but even things outside which aren’t well made or slightly off.

Slight stutters in games, if it doesn’t run super smooth, it drives me crazy.

I guess most racing games all allow simultaneous kb/joystick?

Yes, they do. Didn’t see any specific game which does not - especially since I used a similar setup with my Steam Controller, which did keyboard, mouse and analog controller input.

It also works with non-specific analog I out games, like GTA V.

I have a Wooting keyboard myself. It’s an amazing keyboard for writing, casual usage and gaming.

If you play any games using analog input, like racing games, it’s the best you can get next to a controller.

Also, the keyboard does not need any weird software running in the background, you do all settings and firmware updates on their website, without installing anything.

This is a critical feature missing. Especially considering when one instance goes down, so does your account.

If announced, we should be able to easily transfer the account.

But an instance might also go down unannounced (especially now with so many hosting instances just for fun or to experiment with it).

While in such a case your posts and comments on this local instance will be gone, there needs to be a way to recover your account on another instance with all your posts and comments made on other instances still connected to your account, being editable or deletable.

There isn’t much left.

First Facebook with their whole meta thing, then Imgur deleting all NSFW content and images uploaded by non-registered members, afterwards Twitter and now Reddit.

Twitch made a big mistake with their new sponsoring rules, but seems like they are reverting / changing it again due to bad community feedback.

Discord had a few changes the community didn’t like, but nothing ground breaking yet. But they get more and more greedy and their platform is filled with scams, hackers, bots and sadly many bad people like child predators and content which Discord support does nothing against. They seem not to care.

YouTube, well, I think they might be next actually. More and longer unskipable ads, restricting or demonetizing many videos, bad communication with their creators and less rewards for smaller creators. In addition, they might put high quality resolutions behind their already existing expensive subscription paywall. There isn’t any competition which is urgently needed.

UPDATE: Bad news about YouTube continues. Just now, YouTube Ordered ‘Invidious’ Privacy Software to Shut Down in 7 Days.

Which other big social media platforms are left?