At least there's still the EU limiting the power of these companies, I guess..

No one ever questions these things. "It's for the kids!" is the one argument that'll lead us all to damnation.

Hasn't RSS support been dropping these last few years? Last I heard was that RSS was dying, though I don't know how true that is.

Does lemmy and other fediverse stuff currently have such a huge bot problem?

It seems really great actually. Thanks for the rec. Might selfhost it. But I also get the argument of Kagi if one doesn't want to rely on the search results of Google/Bing/DDG or whatever. Even if I definitely prefer FOSS.

Thanks, I definitely prefer this alternative. How does searxng work in general?

Kagi has definitely been on my radar, but it sounds a bit weird (for lack of a better word) to pay for search. I've never even thought about it. Maybe it's worth it...