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Because search engines (Google) and centralised blogging services (WordPress, Tumblr, Flickr, later Twitter, Facebook, etc.) offer better user experience and di
by miohtama 4y ago
Because search engines (Google) and centralised blogging services (WordPress, Tumblr, Flickr, later Twitter, Facebook, etc.) offer better user experience and discoverability than webrings.
- JohnFen 4y agoI dunno. Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. don't actually provide what the web used to provide, so they certainly didn't improve anything from the early web. It's apples-and-oranges, but the apples mostly don't exist anymore. It happened as part of the shift the web made from being people-driven to being commerce-driven.
- coldacid 4y agos/offer better user experience and discoverability/have better marketing and SEO/ FTFY.