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I think the sheer volume of "recent" content happens on those platforms absolutely dwarfs anything that anyone creates on their own time and private platform. F
by zo1 2y ago
I think the sheer volume of "recent" content happens on those platforms absolutely dwarfs anything that anyone creates on their own time and private platform. For every 1 person writing their thoughts or findings on a blog, you have maybe 10 Thousand people making low-effort FB, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok postings. These people might as well be low-IQ "bots" and the platforms love them because they drive engagement, eyeballs, clickbait, rage and controversy.
We will never get that Web back. That innocence, naivety, hope and shared and private space is long lost.
- eitland 2y agoTry search.marginalia.nu (free) or kagi.com (paid). Both prove that it is very much possible to come up with better rankings than Google do. Googles problem very much seems to be that quote by Upton Sinclair that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” search.marginalia.nu and kagi.com have nothing to gain by sending people to websites that result in ad impressions for Google so for them it is a whole lot easier to rank fairly. Also without this incentive it turns out that the feature everyone asked Google for - personalized blocklists - wasn't as impossible as googlers have told us over the years.
- ericjmorey 2y agoI didn't know about Marginalia, thanks! I've been trying out https://www.mojeek.com/ https://www.mojeek.com/ recently. I mostly like it, but haven't made it my primary habit to use it first before duckduckgo. I'm avoiding kagi for various reasons.
- account42 2y agohttps://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ is also a good search engine for (re-)discovering the alternate (or rather original) web.