SearchFOSS PeARS<p>3) It's anti <a href="https://floss.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a>: we make use of relatively old-school statistical <a href="https://floss.social/tags/NLProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NLProc</span></a> methods that have a much smaller resource & carbon footprint than LLMs do. </p><p>4) It's federated: similar to how <a href="https://floss.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> & <a href="https://floss.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> work, your instance is your local community but you're part of a larger and growing network. If you search on SearchFOSS, you get both local information and results from the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pears" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pears</span></a></span> network. Some cool related remote instances are ai-pears.org and retronlp.org</p><p>3/</p>