Consider also getting Simple Tab Groups. You can basically instantly send a bunch of tabs to a “group”, which is like bookmarks except they can also be opened/closed all at once in a new window. Very handy, you can open 50 tabs researching something, close them all, then instantly reopen them when coming back to the research.

Does it have to be Chrome, or just e.g. Chromium is fine?

There’s stuff like Searxng or whoogle, but these aren’t “real” search engines, merely “search aggregators” - they relay requests to a bunch of actual search engines, like bing or google, and aggregate the results. That’s why they don’t require tons of compute and scraping, and also why they often fail to work (since the search engines in question don’t like or allow this). I believe it’s not feasible to run a “real” search engine alone or even as a small group of people - according to this comment you need a powerful server with terabytes* of drive, hundreds of gigabytes of RAM and a lot of compute - and all of this will just let you crawl some top domains, nowhere near a good chunk of the internet.

*which sounds low actually, I would have expected more for this

On reddit fitgirls site is never mentioned in full for good reason.

That’s just false. There’s a direct link in the r/piracy megathread.

Lutris doesn’t, but you can do firejail --net=none lutris

OBS supports capturing audio from a specific application, so if you set that up you don’t need to be careful with foreign sounds.

Staying on your home instance is currently an issue on the repo. Implementing it yourself would need using the search, which is complicated because it only works through a websocket connection.

I’d probably post quite a bit of content (music, etc) on a youtube alternative if I could expect it to not be copyright-striked. (and if anyone would watch it. The current PeerTube instances seem very barren.)

VLC, for playing videos and other media.

I’m surprised nobody mentioned this, but I use mpv for the same. It barely has an interface, but it’s light and extremely configurable, and what I did was turn it into a picture-in-picture player (small, no border, etc, show subtitles if possible…). I use it to watch everything, including Youtube videos (it has builtin yt-dlp integration).

Or LibreTube, especially since Revanced needs Android 8+.

3rd-party Twitter clients are going to have quite a spike in popularity then, just need to implement clientside blocking.