How is the YaCy project doing?
Can we somewhere see the growth in YaCy users over time?
Has there been much development recently, much code improved?
As I see the growth isn’t big. But I will provide some more instances so this will help. The community is not very big, but it’s still living.
I think it would be help to tell more people about it. Many people do not know this project…
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There are a lot of people fed up with the Big Data companies right now who would love a Free alternative, particularly because search results are being censored.
I think packaging YaCy so that installation and configuration is easier would encourage people. Perhaps Sandstorm would be one good place to begin:
Sandstorm makes installing apps easier for people and more secure.
I think supporting YaCy on Vesta might encourage people to use it too:
https://vestacp.com/
Currently, YaCy is actually easy to install, and it works right away, but the configurations to get it to work well with other instances is a bit tricky.
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Matter or where it is seen/used. I have put it in my torrents site. It went straight up to 256Seeds & 42peers … suggesting there is a lot of interest. I think it will grow a lot in 2020. Academically speaking it is a paradox or flip-side of ‘economies of scale’ (actually very much like single torrent files). It takes a while to get to the critical mass (feed = demand-1), then way it goes. 256/42 @3.22 is right up there (after 22 minutes).
Very close to critical mass, so enjoy the peace (here) while it lasts.
Cheers,
Rick.
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well i’m at least 1 person that has joined 
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using yacy along side a pleroma instance.
and attempting to proxy through tor.
not indexing , just proxy (*/proxy.html?url=https://subdomain.domain.tld).