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This telling - "yahoo bought geocities and shut it down, thus shutting the open web" - ignores the fact that all the other similar services died a similar fate.
by shp0ngle 3y ago
This telling - "yahoo bought geocities and shut it down, thus shutting the open web" - ignores the fact that all the other similar services died a similar fate. All the tripods and angelfires, they started being (1) ignores by general public (2) overrun by spam.
I wonder how does neocities battle spam/bad actors problem.
edit: but maybe I come as too negative. If neocities are working for someone and bring them joy then good
- akho 3y agoAlso, the open web is kinda difficult to shut down.
- kyledrake 3y agoWe use a combination of surprisingly powerful and effective things to deal with abuse (spam/phishing/etc). I'd love to show them off because some of them are very cool, but as an older gentleman that used to work at Geocities once told me (he works at the internet archive now), "don't train abuse people, don't let them figure out how you're finding them". Great unsolicited advice that I took to heart. It's always kind of an arms race, but I'm confident we can stay on top of things. RE Angelfire, it's actually still a company and still hosts most of the sites that have ever been created there: https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/ https://www.angelfire.lycos.com/. You can look around for random sites by using "keyword site:angelfire.com" on google search.