Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.
OpenAI, Mircosoft, and Google together kill the open web. Thousands of independent blogs and forums are now nowhere in search engines or pushed back to page two to support their AI and partnerships with Reddit, StackOverflow, and more. Many humans contributed to these sites hoping to build a knowledge base for humanity, but now greedy people like Sama and OpenAI are taking over everything.
@nixCraft Is there any way to find these sites? You are correct in that they disappeared but there must be a way to find them. Hopefully 🤞

@Pajo_16 @nixCraft

If you're looking for blogs and other personal sites I recommend bookmarking these search engines:
- https://search.marginalia.nu/
- https://ichi.do/
- https://clew.se/
- https://searchmysite.net/
- https://wiby.me/

Would also recommend checking out this very excellent piece as well for alternative search options: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

Marginalia Search

search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.

search.marginalia.nu

@jeruyyap @Pajo_16 @nixCraft Support the micro-brew search engines that are trying to make Search Engines Not Suck Again!

(new slogan #SENSA)

@jeruyyap @Pajo_16 @nixCraft

Happy to be mentioned! ;)

Clew is very beta at the moment but I've just started my summer break so I should have some good time for dedicated work on it. :)

@jeruyyap @Pajo_16 @nixCraft Kagi has a great “small web” search filter too
@jeruyyap @Pajo_16 @nixCraft I've captured a bunch of search engines and other sites dedicated to exploring the #IndieWeb here https://shellsharks.com/indieweb#explore-the-indieweb
IndieWeb Assimilation

An introduction to the IndieWeb, with a lot of bonus resources. Includes lists of interesting webrings, IndieWeb search engines, slash page directories, hosting platforms, and an assortment of other delightful things from across the human web.

shellsharks