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Isn't this just saying popular things are "clearnet" and not popular things aren't? That doesn't sound right.
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
Isn't this just saying popular things are "clearnet" and not popular things aren't? That doesn't sound right.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoNote that I didn't say "if it's not showing up on Google [...]", but "if it's not trying to show up on Google [...]". It's not that it's not popular, it doesn't care about popularity or want to be popular, for one reason or another. This may seem strange if you come from the commercial web, but on independent web, it's a pretty common sentiment. There is very little benefit to actually getting visitors from the outside if you have no interactivity and no ads. It's not that they attempt to keep visitors away, they just don't do much to bring them in. Blocking commercial web crawlers isn't particularly rare, for example. Some don't support HTTPS, which means you won't get listed on Google.
- Karrot_Kream 5y ago> It's not that it's not popular, it doesn't care about popularity or want to be popular, for one reason or another. Right that's what I mean. Is http://danluu.com/ http://danluu.com/ outside of the clearnet? > This may seem strange if you come from the commercial web, but on independent web, it's a pretty common sentiment. I've written Gemini software so I don't need the intro. I do get however that "smolweb" people really like talking about their values at the drop of a hat.