A common refrain is that the web is _turning into_ garbage because of LLMs.

But that's not really true. It's just that the garbage is _drowning out_ everything else, especially in search engines that themselves have decided to go into the garbage generation business.

What can we do? We can promote the #IndieWeb right here. Highlight the good, perhaps obscure websites and blogs you come across, especially the ones that aren't loaded with ads & trackers.

The web is still full of awesomeness.

@eloquence

I'm not sure whether generated content will take over but who knows. So far I saw it start to happen on YouTube months ago then it seemed to nearly stop, so maybe they tweaked the algo.

Either way, even without generated content and with ads blocked, the "captive web", as I call it, is already full of such shallow and endless algo-fed dopamine-farming "content" for the masses.

I'm just glad the truly "free web" is alive and kicking thanks to us all.