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I believe altervista would be terrible today. The same with early google. The web has changed. If you look at page rank, it is basically a random walk of the i

I believe altervista would be terrible today. The same with early google. The web has changed. If you look at page rank, it is basically a random walk of the internet and most visited locations get the highest rank. Today you simply cannot trust websites to link to content just for the love of sharing good content. You can’t even trust webpages to be relevant to the keywords they write in their content. You can’t even trust them to show the same content to search engines as they show to regular users. A modern search engine has an adverse relationship to the pages it is indexing. In the good old days they had a trusting relationship.

Loughla 5y ago
>In the good old days they had a trusting relationship. It's almost like there need to be clearly defined and agreed upon rules for everyone to operate under, with clear consequences for failing to follow those rules. Sort of like some kind of, well, legislation. Trust and social norms setting expectation is fine when it works. But it will eventually stop working. So what's the answer after that? How do we fix it without making it worse via legislation or regulation?