KristianSomething about omg.lol that goes unnoticed too often and this feels a bit sad so here we are:
"url.town doesn’t have any overly lofty ambitions; we’re just building our own directory of really nice websites. We’re not trying to fully recreate the original Yahoo! or DMOZ directories. We’re not aiming for some astronomical number of links. This is just one space on the web, tied to a community that loves to share neat things with one another. Quality matters much more than quantity. There’s no need to share everything just for the shake of sharing it; it’s much better to share things that are useful or interesting."
Given the predominance of search indexes and model-based suggestions and recommendations, maybe things such as web directories are an interesting step both "back" and "forth" to creating meaningful structure and navigation across a wide range of sites and systems while making sure this is data someone has actually in a way reviewed and considered interesting or relevant - even though, knowing, it's a matter of community and trust at the very end. And maybe this conclusion makes sense in many aspects of digital tools off the path of difficult big tech corporations: Community and trust. #linkdump #omgdotlol #digital_technologies #internet_meta
