Still asshole design though. Why do they need my personal information (in this case an email) for me to be able to see public posts?

Searx is pretty great, although I wouldn’t recommend self-hosting it. Just use one of the public instances like Searx Belgium because it is harder to fingerprint you off of your searches since a lot of people also do their searches on the same instance.

ViMusic has been unmaintained for a while AFAIK. Use RiMusic instead.

fixed another typo

Why did you get downvoted lol? Odysee and Peertube are pretty good alternatives.