I'm saying that an individual's home PC isn't capable of indexing the web
alone, or holding the index if it could, much less effectively searching it.
YaCy is not about "an individual's home PC". It has never been.
http://yacy.net is pretty clear about it. The second sentence is:
When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is
limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of
web pages.
Yet you wrote that we "are batshit" in answer to lembas and SuperTramp83
writing that YacY is a great idea. Just admit you were wrong, give up the
patronizing tone and start over on a better base.