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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 55 points 1 month ago (7 children)

We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.

I don't know, maybe bring back the fucking webrings or something.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but this only works because we are so few still, when the masses floods in anywhere, everything turns to shit. Because of greed

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You aint wrong. I am not sure how federation will handle prime time tbh

[–] SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago

And there's still web directories hanging around, similar to the now dead dmoz site.

https://url.town/ and https://curlie.org/ for example

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.

https://duckduckgo.com/

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I remember seeing a few days ago that Microsoft would be closing down its Bing API. I wonder how DDG will handle that.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Webrings were so good, I would spend hours clicking through them

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Man I miss Webrings.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Man it's miss the nethernet

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like a block chain - like system where each site gets listed.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

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.