Kagi search engine
I come from the old Internet. My dad was on BBS before the WWW and as a kid I got to share that experience with him. I also remember when the WWW formed and searching the web using Netscape and having a website up and running with some HTML back before CSS. Even though the web was a lot smaller it was a lot bigger and growing up I was exposed to so many ideas. There is no need to go down the rabbit hole shit show that is Google Search. At the same time, I get it - bills to pay - or something like that.
Kagi is pretty dope. There is a free tier and you can pay for some other nifty features. But their lens feature and search experience so far is pretty nostalgic and I can find things without post fixing my search queries with "reddit" lol
Twitter was valuable because people would share links. You could find interesting stuff once you sifted through the BS. It was sort of a hack for lack of a good search engine. But I shouldn't have to sift though bullshit and ads to find stuff - that would be like going to the library and all the books were wrapped in duck tape and you had to remove the duck tape before you could read it. Slight exaggeration but sometimes it doesn't feel like it.