Definitely not synthetic or some sort of substitute or alternative.
Good question. I suppose I should be looking into it, but next on my list to de-google myself is getting a subscription to Kagi.
The dream is to be off them completely, but I view (but do not engage with) a weekly top posts of a few reddit communities at the end of the week. YouTube has its claws in me and I look forward to trading that out.
Yes. I never used RIF. I’m simply concerned about who controls my media.
So, I’ve given PieFed a spin, and I can already say the web UI loads much quicker on my phone than Lemmy. I guess I’ll take the plunge by migrating it.
Hah, that’s kind of what I was thinking