dragon_gm

I'd say that block in general (incl those in the blocklist) is a bit much, hide is better imo, so users have the choice on if they want to hide or show those posts with the blocked link in them. Meanwhile each instances can decide what the default is, on or off, but the end user can decide how they want

According to Rimu Atkinson, the main developer of PieFed, all PieFed instances come with a 3000-long block list of resources that cannot be linked to. These include all sorts of right-wing outlets. There is no easy opt-out, forcing existing instances to follow the blocklist.

I support blocking propaganda and fascism, however this is just censorship imo. This could be a good feature, IF the ultimate choice is on the instances and its users on if they want to have it enabled or not by default, not from the developer and "on all instances with no easy opt-out"

to use searx(ng) effectively you'll need to set up your own preferences, not the default

from the screenshot, the instance caches and shows results from bing only, ass.

it also use auto as default which will show personalized language results based on the instance's ip (although it's mainly yours), change that to all

you can do both just by changing and saving your preferences. for example here's mine