Jake in the desertBeen working on a blog post idea about how the 'old', real, more simple web is still around, usable, fuck the big corpo garbage web, and so on. Been seeing other great pieces on it, gathering ideas, wanna reference them, etc. Wanna collect all of them and say something intelligent about it but wow it's gonna take a while to collect it all and write it up 😂 But be assured, it's on its way eventually. Hopefully sooner than later. I want it to be almost like a brief, simple roadmap for the real web.
MadeInDex 📰🌎@jake4480 let me know once it's done please, highly interested in this topic!
@madeindex heck yeah, will do! My brain takes a while to marinate on things, but eventually they happen - when I can't stop thinking about them 😂
@jake4480 quality takes time! I have been working on some articles for years now, like I have a big one on AI including prediction and it's still not done, even though many of them already happened haha Guess sometimes it can be a bit too long ;)
@madeindex nice. And no, I totally feel that. I have some VERY old drafts and ideas. Ones I've been working on forever. I have two groups of songs I've been working on for like, over 10 years probably 😂
Brian Nicar@jake4480 Sounds awesome, brother!
@wendigo thanks man! I hope so. I've learned so much being here, and there are so many important kind of sites and concepts around - would be nice to have them all in one place.
Gavin@jake4480 On that note, I’m back on Kagi again. They have a great app for the small web now that lets you browse through thousands of home pages like we did when Lycos was still cool.
Yes, there’s still a lot of little sites out there waiting to be discovered. They kinda skew towards nerds, perhaps understandably, but we just need to make it cool and accessible again.
@gavin57 awesome. Yeah, Kagi is big with my research and stuff. Of course Neocities too. And even Spacehey 😂 see why it's a lot to gather? 😂🤣 but yeah I'm fairly passionate about it so as soon as I organize my thoughts and figure out presentation, I should really have something.
cb@jake4480 hell yeah, sounds like it will be a good one. It's so cool that things like webrings still exist. small web ftw!
@cb HECK yeah! So true. Webrings are so huge. Discovery. Kagi. Neocities. Those places are magical.
TCD 🎮@TCD always. Hahaha. Yeah, thats the idea. Some solarpunk. All the DIY stuff I see lately and for the last few years is so magical.
Chris 👾@jake4480 That would be great! Sounds like a lot of work though. I used to have a dedicated bookmark manager tool, link lists, read later folders and blog rolls and all that but never got around to sort anything and eventually most of these blogs were gone - so yeah, it's a lot of work to maintain some sort of meaningful catalog.
You've probably seen the kagi smallweb already - completely different approach - it's basically just a custom search index with 36K blogs as a textfile and no reviews or comments, but it's open source and might help with research: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
Somewhat related: the original founder bought back Digg with the idea to re-boot it and they even launched a public beta. Except they've got immediately spammed into oblivion by bot armies and had to shut it down again 🤷♂️
@chris Argh! Damn bots. Yeah, I hear ya. Lots of bookmarks for sure. Kagi is big in my research. It's so wild, all the great areas, and some sites already have such amazing collections like what Xandra has over at https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49 - maybe you're aware of that one.
There just aren't any that have exactly the ones I want, grouped like I want.. 😂
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