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[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Given the state of Mozilla I hope the EU is debating "do we build our own browser or something to replace web browsers?" Likewise for a web search index.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

The search thing is in the works for a while now: https://openwebsearch.eu/

I'm kind of worried though, whether it will make the jump from an all-over-the-place research project to an actual production-ready digital service for public good. That hasn't really been done before on an EU level.