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One of the best internet experiences I had in a while is reading (and writing!) posts on bearblog.dev, check out their discover feed. Wholesome place. In simil

One of the best internet experiences I had in a while is reading (and writing!) posts on bearblog.dev, check out their discover feed. Wholesome place. In similar spirit, check out https://ooh.directory https://ooh.directory

marginalia_nu 2y ago
If I'm excused for self-promoting, I've also made some tools for discovery: e.g. https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random https://search.marginalia.nu/site/t3x.org?view=info https://search.marginalia.nu/site/t3x.org?view=info
- 8organicbits 2y ago
  Here's another self-promotion. https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/ This uses OPML blogrolls to crawl blog-to-blog recommendations. I seeded it with the blogs I follow and various planets (https://indieweb.org/planet https://indieweb.org/planet) and then recursively followed recommendations to build an organic network. Lots of the content is tech-related, indieweb, and smallweb. It's grown to 17 languages and over 4000 RSS/atom feeds. As an example, the linked blog has a page here [1] and it was discovered by a recommendation by [2]. [1] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-12ac5c19b1de9ffa432f0063f84539c4/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-12ac5... [2] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-8ecf912379244d536a74e8070a923b6e/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-8ecf9...
  - freediver 2y ago
    This is cool! Is the aggregate list supposed to update regularly? https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/rss.xml https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/rss.xml
    - 8organicbits 2y ago
      Yes, semi-regularly, I did a fresh update since your message. To reduce storage size, only the title/link/metadata of latest post from each feed is saved. I run the crawler manually, aiming for weekly, but sometimes less frequently. So this won't catch every post and it lags behind quite a bit. I'm hitting some hosting sites faster than I'd like, especially ones that support custom domain names, so I'm planning on fixing up the rate-limiting strategy before I put it in a daily cron job. There's a plan for ArchiveTeam to use the RSS feed as another way of discovering blog posts to archive. I don't think it's generally useful to point your feed reader at it as there's quite a diverse collection of content.
fortran77 2y ago
I just tried using google to search for sites I see in ooh.directory, and it's very hard to get them to surface. I can take exact specific phrases from them, like "Scaling a Digital Panel Voltmeter" and without quotes neither Google nor Bing will find the site, and with quotes, only Bing finds the site: (https://zzncx.top/posts/scaling-a-digital-panel-voltmeter/ https://zzncx.top/posts/scaling-a-digital-panel-voltmeter/) Personal blogs with real information just can't be found anymore.
- smetj 2y ago
  Excellent point made
- 8organicbits 2y ago
  Marginalia, mentioned in sibling comment, does exactly what you're looking for, I'm seeing the site as the top result without using quotes: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Scaling+a+Digital+Panel+Voltmeter&js=&adtech=&searchTitle=&profile=corpo&recent= https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Scaling+a+Digital+...
  - marginalia_nu 2y ago
    It's kinda hit and miss with regards to these types of queries. I've got better phrase matching in the pipe though, give it a few weeks and it should do this even better.
Cosi1125 2y ago
The Reddit thread [1] in which the author introduces Bearblog explains the sorry state of today's Internet a bit. "What's the point of blogging if I can't track users and harvest their email addresses?" [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/i8fmuc/%CA%95%E1%B4%A5%CA%94_bear_the_most_minimal_blogging_platform_ever/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/i8fmuc/%CA%95%E1%...
- philistine 2y ago
  For me, the point of my pointless blogging is to sell dozens of books across the world with my words in them. That way, I feel like I’ve achieved immortality. No joke.

marginalia_nu 2y ago

If I'm excused for self-promoting, I've also made some tools for discovery: e.g. https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random https://search.marginalia.nu/site/t3x.org?view=info https://search.marginalia.nu/site/t3x.org?view=info

8organicbits 2y ago
Here's another self-promotion. https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/ This uses OPML blogrolls to crawl blog-to-blog recommendations. I seeded it with the blogs I follow and various planets (https://indieweb.org/planet https://indieweb.org/planet) and then recursively followed recommendations to build an organic network. Lots of the content is tech-related, indieweb, and smallweb. It's grown to 17 languages and over 4000 RSS/atom feeds. As an example, the linked blog has a page here [1] and it was discovered by a recommendation by [2]. [1] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-12ac5c19b1de9ffa432f0063f84539c4/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-12ac5... [2] https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-8ecf912379244d536a74e8070a923b6e/ https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/feed-8ecf9...
- freediver 2y ago
  This is cool! Is the aggregate list supposed to update regularly? https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/rss.xml https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/rss.xml
  - 8organicbits 2y ago
    Yes, semi-regularly, I did a fresh update since your message. To reduce storage size, only the title/link/metadata of latest post from each feed is saved. I run the crawler manually, aiming for weekly, but sometimes less frequently. So this won't catch every post and it lags behind quite a bit. I'm hitting some hosting sites faster than I'd like, especially ones that support custom domain names, so I'm planning on fixing up the rate-limiting strategy before I put it in a daily cron job. There's a plan for ArchiveTeam to use the RSS feed as another way of discovering blog posts to archive. I don't think it's generally useful to point your feed reader at it as there's quite a diverse collection of content.

fortran77 2y ago

I just tried using google to search for sites I see in ooh.directory, and it's very hard to get them to surface. I can take exact specific phrases from them, like "Scaling a Digital Panel Voltmeter" and without quotes neither Google nor Bing will find the site, and with quotes, only Bing finds the site: (https://zzncx.top/posts/scaling-a-digital-panel-voltmeter/ https://zzncx.top/posts/scaling-a-digital-panel-voltmeter/) Personal blogs with real information just can't be found anymore.

smetj 2y ago
Excellent point made
8organicbits 2y ago
Marginalia, mentioned in sibling comment, does exactly what you're looking for, I'm seeing the site as the top result without using quotes: https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Scaling+a+Digital+Panel+Voltmeter&js=&adtech=&searchTitle=&profile=corpo&recent= https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=Scaling+a+Digital+...
- marginalia_nu 2y ago
  It's kinda hit and miss with regards to these types of queries. I've got better phrase matching in the pipe though, give it a few weeks and it should do this even better.

Cosi1125 2y ago

The Reddit thread [1] in which the author introduces Bearblog explains the sorry state of today's Internet a bit. "What's the point of blogging if I can't track users and harvest their email addresses?" [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/i8fmuc/%CA%95%E1%B4%A5%CA%94_bear_the_most_minimal_blogging_platform_ever/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/i8fmuc/%CA%95%E1%...

philistine 2y ago
For me, the point of my pointless blogging is to sell dozens of books across the world with my words in them. That way, I feel like I’ve achieved immortality. No joke.