I don't know that the solution is another search engine, at least not one that resembles what search engines are now.

I want to be able to find stuff put out by actual human beings, not AI slop or SEO garbage.

How do we make it possible to still find new connections & information in such a hostile space?

To me, it's not a search problem per se. We have to get out of the zombie-web. We have to be able to find & link together the real, living Internet.

I know that the non-corporate web exists, because here I am on Fedi.

Google searches mostly bring me results from what is effectively a different Internet: an empty corporate wasteland. Google doesn't want me to find anything else.

I guess in a sense I already use Fedi as my search engine.

If I'm not in a rush & don't need a result right now, it works pretty well to post & ask people "where can I find...?"

I will eventually get some people pointing me to real resources that they find valuable.

I see lots of people recommending curated lists of links to sites/resources, which I think is a great partial solution (there is a diversity of options, & the answer is almost certainly not one single approach).

A place to start would be looking at the resources we have in our own areas of expertise or interest & creating annotated lists with links.

Without hosting that somewhere, it's not much use, but if I started now, once I figure out how I want to share that info, I'd be ready to go.

The future is human.

There are a lot of things that seem like they should be automatable, but when there is such concerted effort being put toward keeping us ignorant & disconnected from each other, our solutions are going to be powered by people.

I think decentralized networks of people sharing & connecting are the only way that we maintain an Internet for Humans.

(Is IFH anything already that would make it confusing? "Internet for Humans" seems like a pretty good term/identifier)

If I weren't on Fedi, I think I would feel a lot more despair over the world right now, & it's not just the fact that there are a lot of like-minded folks here nor that in many corners of it we try to cultivate a culture of kindness, as great as those things are.

It's such a fucking relief in the age of AI & walled gardens & information control to have an Internet space created by & for human beings. Not for corporations. Not for bots. Not for data harvesting.

An Internet for Humans.