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.
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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