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We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.
I don't know, maybe bring back the fucking webrings or something.
Yeah, but this only works because we are so few still, when the masses floods in anywhere, everything turns to shit. Because of greed
Easy, it's actually hard enough to join Lemmy in comparison to the other sites, that I don't believe the masses will ever flood here.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing, althought I still have to follow my favourite projects on discord and reddit . Since they are publishing for the masses
The Internet Used to be a Place
There are still active webrings:
sadgrl.online webring directory
digilord.neocities.org/webring
webringworld.org
brisray webring list
And there's still web directories hanging around, similar to the now dead dmoz site.
https://url.town/ and https://curlie.org/ for example
I seek out out-of-the-way websites maintained by one or two people and then subscribe by RSS. RSS may be the only thing left keeping the web sane.
https://duckduckgo.com/
I remember seeing a few days ago that Microsoft would be closing down its Bing API. I wonder how DDG will handle that.
Webrings were so good, I would spend hours clicking through them
Man I miss Webrings.
Man it's miss the nethernet
Like a block chain - like system where each site gets listed.
Oh Hells no, no blockchain. Like AI, its worthless, beyond extremely inefficient, and people have been desperately trying to cram it into everything where it doesn't belong.
Search doesn't need a block chain.
I'm imagining more a federated system, like Lemmy. Currently it aggregates posts from different servers, I can see these servers actively spiderii the Internet and together making a whole.