I host my searxng instance on a hetzner vps so my ip is not leaked anywhere.
Unfortunately the GrapheneOS team do not provide apks for the vanadium browser. Have fun compiling it yourself.
I doubt cromite's devs' knowledge in privacy as they still use Adblock Plus (which has some privacy issues) instead of uBlock Origin.
Brave is even shadier with their past URL injection "accident" and overall crypto involvment.
The best is to self host your own SearXNG metasearch engine.
Well then you won't find the videos uploaded to that instance in sepiasearch.
Matrix, SimpleX, XMPP
It's because LW is behind cloudflare iirc.
If you are on mobile, Grayjay still works and is being actively maintained. They also support other platforms like PeerTube and Odysee, which you can easily enable.
https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances/add
It seems like it does not require any verification of ownership of the domain, so you can add any peertube instance you want. It's instantly added to the list.