Post by @bioluminescently@disabled.social

2023-07-16 20:23 UTC

@eaton@phire.place This is also why it's such a problem that independent websites are now falling so far down search engine rankings. When I was younger, if you had a problem with A Thing from a larger category of Things, you'd go to a website run by some Thing Enthusiast or group of them, and look your Thing up in the site's index or inbuilt search box. If it wasn't there, you'd post on the site's forum and another Thing Owner might help. But now... good luck even finding out that indie site exists.

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@eaton@phire.place 2023-07-16 20:25

@bioluminescently@disabled.social yep. It’s one of the reasons that enthusiast communities with curated lists of links have turned into a more promising resource for many subjects. Thankfully, Reddit is still going stro— aaahhh fuck

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@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social 2023-07-16 21:16

@bioluminescently@disabled.social @eaton@phire.place that’s a perfect descriptions of what I loved about the Internet. You could find the enthusiasts and get their expertise by simply reading what they wrote for the world to see. EDIT: though that was also the time when running a Forum wasn’t a full-time job just to keep the spambots out …

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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me 2023-07-17 00:55

@bioluminescently@disabled.social @eaton@phire.place Did you give https://search.marginalia.nu/ a try for this kind of use case?

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@keengrasp@layer8.space 2023-07-17 17:00

@bioluminescently@disabled.social @eaton@phire.place So much this. I hate feeling like the "old man yells at cloud" meme is now about me, but like: people really ought to be yelling, and that is not a natural cloud, it is the smoke from a bunch of corporate scumbags setting everything good in the world on fire

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