Maybe you misread. aeternum gave two reasons for not "using Google": (1) they often shut down services—his/her original reason—and (2) being "evil", an additional reason and possibly a reference to Google's "Don't be evil" motto which is now used only in a very weak context at the end of their Code of Conduct.
Zaytalion
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See https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances. That list of "random instances" is updated frequently from awesome-lemmy-instances.csv.
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