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Look, the goverment is good at providing a good starter set of things you need for life. Infrastructure has no real competition so the infrastructure needs to be state owned since we can't have it fail. I would look favorably if the government funded an open initiative to build a FOSS search index... but I think a search engine isn't something like core infrastructure that can only reasonably exist once.
Besides... SearxNG is just a relay engine and if every european used it and relayed the search request to other search engines without them getting a dime I don't think that would be fair.
Lemmy also isn't developed by the state. It might get funding from the goverment but thats a very different thing - Core research that doesn't have a straight up ROI is also one of the things where everyone benefits of it long term falls under something the government should do. I just don't think the government is good at running an economical business and I can't imagine living in a country where every company was like state-run with a top-down system. Competition is good, what we have is a lack of competition
You asked me to name a good service a government provides for a large number of people successfully. I named several. I get that you have ideological problems with goverments doing stuff, but governments not doing stuff results in what you can see in the US right now.
The original post is also not about a hypothetical ideological question, but that the US government was captured and dismantled by its corporations, and those corporations want to continue that societal rot over here. The EU cannot tolerate that.