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> It’s a bit strange, almost nobody seems to be doing this. Looking through a sample of personal websites, very few of them has links to other personal websites

> It’s a bit strange, almost nobody seems to be doing this. Looking through a sample of personal websites, very few of them has links to other personal websites. Bingo. This isn't just the blogosphere, I see it in research papers, on GitHub pages, on social media, and elsewhere. I could speculate, but I don't really know what causes this...

arromatic 3y ago
I previously asked about about bringing back webrings to discover small sites but didn't gain much traction. there was only one comment linking about webring . I am curious too why there isn't a strong open source initiative like so many other open source projects. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128
booleandilemma 3y ago
I'm sure it has something to do with crab mentality. Why promote others? The only people I see doing so are the already super successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
giantrobot 3y ago
It's because Google treats all sites with a large number of outbound links as a link farm and punishes them. Because Google couldn't figure out what list of links was organic vs spam it just punished everyone.
omoikane 3y ago
For me personally, I have been trimming links I have in various public places because a link is a sort of endorsement, and these days there is always someone who gets mad at you for endorsing the wrong thing. Even if a personal website is mostly alright, someone is going to dig up a random quote out of context, and the rest of the internet will judge your links based on that one bit. Linking to a specific article on a single topic seems relatively safe, but linking to toplevel websites or blogs seems more risky.
- carlosjobim 3y ago
  Why in the world would you care about that, when there are already millions of people who don't even know you who hate you because of things outside of your control?
rchaud 3y ago
It's simple. Personal websites are the equivalent of "check my Linktree" for the HTML-literate. Most personal site sites I've seen are either boring technical blogposts or an impersonal online resume. People aren't showing their real personalities on their sites anymore.
jamesfinlayson 3y ago
Is it because there are just fewer personal websites to link to? I run a couple of small websites - one has eight or so links to similar personal-ish websites (non-reciprocal - just links I find useful and I assume my readers will find useful) but the other has no such links, just because I haven't found anything similar worth linking to.

arromatic 3y ago

I previously asked about about bringing back webrings to discover small sites but didn't gain much traction. there was only one comment linking about webring . I am curious too why there isn't a strong open source initiative like so many other open source projects. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128

booleandilemma 3y ago

I'm sure it has something to do with crab mentality. Why promote others? The only people I see doing so are the already super successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

giantrobot 3y ago

It's because Google treats all sites with a large number of outbound links as a link farm and punishes them. Because Google couldn't figure out what list of links was organic vs spam it just punished everyone.

omoikane 3y ago

For me personally, I have been trimming links I have in various public places because a link is a sort of endorsement, and these days there is always someone who gets mad at you for endorsing the wrong thing. Even if a personal website is mostly alright, someone is going to dig up a random quote out of context, and the rest of the internet will judge your links based on that one bit. Linking to a specific article on a single topic seems relatively safe, but linking to toplevel websites or blogs seems more risky.

carlosjobim 3y ago
Why in the world would you care about that, when there are already millions of people who don't even know you who hate you because of things outside of your control?

rchaud 3y ago

It's simple. Personal websites are the equivalent of "check my Linktree" for the HTML-literate. Most personal site sites I've seen are either boring technical blogposts or an impersonal online resume. People aren't showing their real personalities on their sites anymore.

jamesfinlayson 3y ago

Is it because there are just fewer personal websites to link to? I run a couple of small websites - one has eight or so links to similar personal-ish websites (non-reciprocal - just links I find useful and I assume my readers will find useful) but the other has no such links, just because I haven't found anything similar worth linking to.