Fediverse
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)
I suggest small web by Kagi for this. It’s like stumbleupon for the modern age.
Maybe we need web directories again, like what Yahoo originally was.
i'm too young for that :D
So you don’t know the wonders of geocities or stumbleupon then?
Stumbleupon was the best.
Took me to a site once, where a person would write out what they're dealing with, and a random other person would send them an existing song. I assume it was all anonymous.
Like this one person posted about dealing with a horrible aunt, and I sent back Jonathan Coulton's "Someone is Crazy"
Oh man, I miss the early days of Stumbleupon. So many unique sites.
There was someone a while ago who was trying to get a web ring going for like nerd stuff. They said so many of their friends and people they talked to loved the idea, but no one made a site of their own.
I posted it in a local community group, and everyone said the same thing.
Alright, I'm in. I've been looking for something to host on my domain root. New weekend project!
yeah making content is a lot of work. i can't blame them.
This is a serious problem for the Internet. While there are sites like https://512kb.club/ (it features lightweight websites with content), but there's not an easy way to learn about new or niche sites.
According to https://growthbadger.com/traffic-study/ from April 5, 2020 (yes, it's 6 years old)
What 3.25 Billion Website Visits Tell Us About the Internet’s Top Traffic Sources
- Search is the single largest online traffic source, driving well over 50% of most industries’ web traffic.
- Google drives 8 times more traffic than all social media networks combined.
- The average top blog gets 66.47% of its traffic from search, of which 99.77% is organic and only 0.23% is paid.
- In almost every industry, Facebook still sends more traffic than all other social networks. The two exceptions are Design and Development (for which the top network is YouTube) and Crypto (for which it is Twitter).
- The niche that is most reliant on Google is Health and Medical, with 87.85% of its traffic coming from search.
- The niche that is least reliant on Google is Crypto, with 45.74% of its traffic coming from search.
- Facebook delivers 65.36% of all social media traffic: more visits per month than all other social networks combined.
- Instagram drives very little traffic: under 1% overall across all niches. Even fashion and beauty brands that were launched by Instagram influencers (e.g. Kylie Cosmetics) receive less than 5% of their monthly visits from Instagram — while search brings in about 10 times as many.
- The niche that is most reliant on Facebook is Business and Marketing, which gets 13.52% of its traffic from the network.
- Reddit drives over 3 times as much traffic to blogs as YouTube.