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The "white-hat kind" can trivially be filtered out (or deterred) by downranking any of the crap these marketers use to measure their conversion rate - analytics, etc.
I love this idea. Would be nice to see it in a search engine, or at least a browser extension showing how much analytics junk a site has before you click it.
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Yeah there is. I surf with JS off because of people like you.
https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics You surf with JS off because of sites abusing their users' data. This is not it.
>I noted that there had been multiple weeks where not one single real person had visited a single blog entry for the whole week The site is not on https://searchengine.party/ nor on seirdy.one's overview. Apart from the blog, how could users find that engine? Is there some place where new search engines are announced and where new search engines band together to make themselves heard?
[0] https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
[1] https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one/commit/ab92d8ded69fd869...
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I built my search engine in part to explore whether this was actually true, and I don't think it actually is. There's still a lot of organic human-made content still out there, possibly more than ever, it's just not able to compete with the SEO industry that completely displaces it from Google and social media.
I can only agree with my sister comment. I find this industrialized web more and more shallow and taxing to use. While professionally I need to help (smaller, local) clients to reach their audiences I become more and more weary. It is like walking through a supermarket with industrialized fast convenience food shouting in bright colors and advertising while ultimately not nourishing me like slow, real food could. I a…
Please read it, and if you enjoy it please suggest it to friends.
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Exactly what I mean. There is no way to have an international network with national borders. Telecommunications providers have always been centralized and have always been in bed with the government. Only way we'll ever be free is if someone invents some kind of decentralized long range wireless mesh network.
Good luck, spectrum is highly regulated in every country I can think of. If national governments don’t want you networking across borders, you’re definitely not going to be broadcasting long range radio transmissions that way. In fact, it’s currently illegal to transmit encrypted data or to relay packets via ham radio in the US.
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I built my search engine in part to explore whether this was actually true, and I don't think it actually is. There's still a lot of organic human-made content still out there, possibly more than ever, it's just not able to compete with the SEO industry that completely displaces it from Google and social media.
Agreed. > If I want to search for something topical and relevant, I go to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord etc. The general Internet is dead: it's just legacy content and spam. The "general" Internet is not dead. Though if you just want to participate in just Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord you might well think that. Users of marginalia (aut…
For some things it is. Good luck getting a non-sponsored/SEO-gamed review of a kitchen appliance or particular vacation mode such as a cruise. It's flabbergasting.
Most times I just stick "inurl:reddit.com" in my search and try to get discussion threads about the thing I'm researching, but even that's getting filled up with shills.
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All open systems are destroyed by spam once they become popular enough to be profitable targets. This will eventually happen to the Fediverse too. If there is money to be made pissing all over the commons, the commons will be pissed all over. It even happens to proprietary silos if they are too open. Look at how many bots and spammers infest social media. Propaganda and disinformation can also be considered a form of…
As old open systems are destroyed, new ones are created to replace them. The Internet exists in a constant state of rebirth and transformation. You really can't step into the same river twice.
I love the maxim and philosophy of eternal refreshment.
Seems like the problem is more akin to having nuclear waste dumped into our rivers though.
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Most of the data you can collect with Plausible could just be collected server side instead, it's nothing like Google Analytics.
> Most of the data you can collect with Plausible could just be collected server side instead Then why not just use that instead?