#curlie formerly #dmoz. Also hi to @Curlie
#degoogle #searchengine alternatives

Stumbled onto Curlie (https://curlie.org/), I'm surprised there isn't more visibility of this on masto given its non-commercial nature.

Its an open human curated website directory which built on what DMOZ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ) had and in some ways feel like a much more elegant (if partial) alternative to the sledgehammers that are indexing crawlers.

Looking forward to see if I can use this for relatively static items like reference materials and portals (library sites, etc). It won't be anywhere near complete for local shops and more ephemeral things like blogs.

Are there any other users here on masto who can comment on longterm Curlie usability?

Curlie

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@betula/116523018350755107

Hace poco me preguntaba si habría un gestor de marcadores con federación y aquí tengo la respuesta. Ahora podría plantearme más seriamente hacer algo tipo dmoz.org.

#bookmarks #fediverso #marcadores #dmoz #dmoz.org #fediverse

@julienfalgas eh eh, quel était ton pseudo #dmoz?

Ruh Roh❕

When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘

#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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Re last boost. I remember there was a site called #DMOZ back in the day. I think like a lot of good ideas it was just before it’s time. Imagine a Wikipedia like version of that where it was a curated list of links sorted by category and sub category. With human editors to remove broken lists and weed out AI spam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
DMOZ - Wikipedia

@mjgardner @clayote @iacore IIRC DMOZ tried to do a significant redesign (gray text, lots of whitespace) shortly before it was shut down; And yes, AFAIK it became Curlie.

(And uh, yes, it's offline!?)

#DirectoryMozilla #DMOZ #Mozilla

@clayote @iacore Yah, #Yahoo! inspired “Gnuhoo,” then @fsf complained, so it was renamed NewHoo. Then Yahoo! chimed in, and while they were casting about for a new name, #Netscape acquired it and renamed it #DMOZ. #AOL acquired Netscape and eventually shut down DMOZ in 2017.

@researchfairy You just gave me a DMOZ Open Directory Project flashback...

Sadly we are not allowed to have or keep nice things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ

#DMOZ #ODP

DMOZ - Wikipedia

@evan @BeAware What about the Open Directory Project - #Dmoz? Domains have been approved millions of times.

Bonjour les #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Queer francophones
En ce moment, je fais un focus sur les associations sur #Curlie (ex #DMOZ). Est-ce qu'il vous semble manquer une asso dans ce listing (y compris les catégories) ? https://curlie.org/fr/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9/Personnes/Gays%2C_lesbiennes%2C_bisexuels_et_transgenres/Associations/

Si oui, me le signaler à la suite de ce toot (ça visibilisera le ou les liens) et partagez au besoin pour toucher les LGBT de Masto qui ne suivent pas les hashtags précités.

Curlie - Société: Personnes: Gays, lesbiennes­, bisexuels et transgenre­s: Associatio­ns

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