The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites

Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by haskell_melody on Thursday August 04, 2022 @01:26PM (#32345742)

The hard part is finding the interesting websites - there is such a firehose of content that we've necessitated a separate role for content curators.

I get Thinking About Things, which points me to interesting sites on the internet (https://thinking-about-things.com/). Another great one is Findka essays (https://essays.findka.com/). Would love to hear any other recommendations.

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by kradeelav on Thursday August 04, 2022 @01:29PM (#32345783)

https://search.marginalia.nu/ is a fantastic curated search engine for just those sites you're looking for. :)

alternatively, the bookmarks/links page to mine has a hefty list of artist-focused sites (http://kradeelav.com/link.html), and the yesterweb webring has enough to get you going in the fun quirky webrings - https://links.yesterweb.org/

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by HeyItsMatt on Thursday August 04, 2022 @01:40PM (#32345920)

Google and Bing (and hence DDG etc) are no longer a search engines, they're "information the powers that be permit you to have" engines. Forums, blogs, and small independent websites have disappeared from indexes. Large walled garden platforms like Facebook are impossible to query.

We really need a replacement for Yahoo.

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by snthd on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:43PM (#32346733)

https://www.curlie.org

https://www.curlie.org/docs/en/about.html

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by HeckFeck on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:52PM (#32348765)

I certainly notice this too. I remember searching for technical queries and would find many (not SEOsplurge) blog posts or random forums where the question is discussed. Now it is just the same stackoverflow answer replicated across multiple content farms.

Peculiarly, I have found the more 'genuine' websites by using image search. Perhaps because more things fit into a grid, and I can usually gauge whether the website is genuine or a botfarm from the images its author chose.

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by pphysch on Thursday August 04, 2022 @03:18PM (#32347121)

Is this true?

If I search "presstv", the .com site of which was literally seized by the US govt, I get their unseizable .ir site as the first result. No scary warnings, no fluff.

If I search "rt", I get RT site as the first result.

Similarly for smaller sites that have caught flak or been banned for opposing US government narratives (SCF, CN, GZ, etc).

Ironically, it's "open" platforms like Wikipedia that have the lowest tolerance for political dissent. Twitter, Facebook are quite compromised as well.

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by hedora on Thursday August 04, 2022 @09:38PM (#32350453)

From what I can tell, DDG said they were going to downrank known propaganda sites, which meant that, in practice, dissenting results would also appear.

Then, the pro-Russian-propaganda outlets got upset and started complaining about free speech. (As though exclusively showing sites from one hostile foreign government would be aligned with the intent of the 1st amendment!)

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by haskell_melody on Thursday August 04, 2022 @01:55PM (#32346124)

Wish there was something like Read Something Interesting (http://readsomethinginteresting.com/) but with a search index, where you could search only the blogosphere.

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by DMell on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:20PM (#32346443)

The first item I was taken to on that list is this: https://readsomethinginteresting.com/a/baa96b89

Which takes me to a broken article: https://www.aaronkharris.com/asking-questions

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by srcreigh on Thursday August 04, 2022 @03:19PM (#32347138)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210113145204/https://www.aaron...

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by DMell on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:27PM (#32364241)

Sorry, I need to get in the habit of checking my comments for replies. Thank you!

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by Melatonic on Thursday August 04, 2022 @03:24PM (#32347179)

.....what? What forums have dissapeared from Google? I get and search forum results all the time. This is not including of course the forums that have gone private or purposely delisted themselves

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by HeyItsMatt on Thursday August 04, 2022 @04:06PM (#32347643)

I can't surface them at all for non-programming sites. Occasionally automotive, but it's still mostly AI generated made for adsense junk. I can use site: filters on sites I know about, but I can't find anything on a page I don't know that way. Your filter bubble may be different.

I mostly use Yandex now. It's not great.

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by jacooper on Thursday August 04, 2022 @06:14PM (#32348992)

I find Brave search to be a lot better. Its result are helpful, and not filled with SEO spam.

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by hammyhavoc on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:28PM (#32350821)

I see tons of what you say is missing. I am in the UK, FWIW. Perhaps it depends on niche?

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by mawise on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:45PM (#32346747)

Discovery has become the one thing that our social networking overlords do and focus on. But we learned about new things before them just by talking with our peers. I think the IndieWeb's concept of a Social Reader[1] can do a great job of filling this need. If you like or comment on something in your feed-reader, it becomes a post on your outgoing feed that people can see. This lets any individual or site act as a source for curated content.

[1]: https://indieweb.org/social_reader

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Re:The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites by iam-TJ on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:46PM (#32348702)

Web-rings [0] were a good way to do that discovery of allied sites back in the day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

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