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Where Have All the Websites Gone?

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Re: Where Have All the Websites Gone?

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Post by nottorp »

bdcravens wrote: post #23
dikei wrote: post #15

Isn't this how we classify web "generation"? * Web 1.0: independent websites, self-maintained, hard * Web 2.0: hosted platforms like blogs and social networks, easy, but rely on providers * Web 3.0: promise to free users from the platform providers but are mostly crypto scam currently.

Web 3 as you described it never existed. I think Web 3 is more the TikTok and other mass content tools. Still dependent on their parties, but it's shifted to more access to rich content and more access, rather than the curated pinhole view of "posts", especially when it comes to live feeds.

> Web 3 as you described it never existed.

But it's been talked about this way a lot. Think of the ... in Rust posts but replace it with ... on the blockchain.

Btw where are the ... in Rust posts? They've been replaced by ... with AI?

Re: Where Have All the Websites Gone?

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Post by robaxisal »

mazzystar wrote: post #81

I share the same sentiment, which is why I created this website: https://www.sublink.app It's not about promoting anything, but rather, I genuinely wish for a platform where everyone can curate their favorite websites and articles, you can read my article here: https://mazzzystar.github.io/2023/12/07/sublink/

is it selfhostable? or can it only be used on your instance?

Re: Where Have All the Websites Gone?

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Post by pksebben »

nonethewiser wrote: post #192
pksebben wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stumbleupon! What a gleaming ray of sunshine in the vast landscape of the web! I agree with you that it couldn't survive today, but I often wonder why . If I had access to stumbleupon as it was, I would absolutely be using it - but when I try to think about how to reimplement it there are a couple sticking points that I don't have any solutions to: - Engagement: SU lived and died on it's users, a paragon of the crowd…

Or Stumbleupon clone's aren't popular because there really just isnt a lot of demand for them. Stumbleupon clones already exist. People generally prefer social media and in this case I'd say Reddit more specifically. Here is one I found with a 5 second search: https://cloudhiker.net/ It works great. It's fun. Hopefully people will enjoy it. But I dont think we need to make excuses for why its not more popular.

I didn't mean to do this, but a smarter person than I once said if you want the answer to a question on the internet you ought to post the wrong answer, and I feel like I inadvertently did this.

In my hubris I assumed there wasn't anything comparable that was live, but this is pretty awesome. Glad to have egg on my face here.

Re: Where Have All the Websites Gone?

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Post by CatWChainsaw »

huijzer wrote: post #138
Stranger43 wrote: post #25

It feels like the web grew up into an bitter old fart who takes everything way to seriously. What's missing is the culture of "anonymity" where everyone was pretty much just a screen name and people did not give that much care to their long term reputations and the fall from that more or less started with facebooks real name policy, or rather when facebook stopped being an glorified phonebook and started being an con…

X/Twitter still supports anonymous accounts right?

If you provide your phone number for security and your credit card number for verification of humanity, sure.

Re: Where Have All the Websites Gone?

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Post by arboles »

krapp wrote: post #335
temporarara wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If all you know about 4chan is /b/ and /pol/ then your opinion is valid, but there are lots of other boards there. In any case I find it useful to see at times what the most opinionated people are really thinking when there are no filters and rules to silence them. Like Isaac Asimov said: "Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." And at times "the worst kind of people" there are spot on in their obsessions. I…

The thing is, everyone already knew that child and human trafficking is a big issue in this world. No one needed to wade through the cesspool to find that out. But 4chan doesn't actually give a damn about the kids. They got obsessed with phantom sex cults under pizzerias and decoding gematria in emails because they wanted to undermine Hillary Clinton's election and because they got completely washed by actual non-iro…

> 4chan doesn't actually give a damn about the kids.

> they got

> they wanted

> they equate

> and then they

> they'll gladly take credit

4chan is not a person, or even a coherent population.

You want the world to be simple, but it's not, even if, apparently, you never had in your life to face the fact.

Re: Where Have All the Websites Gone?

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Post by ghosty141 »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #108
ghosty141 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really missing a way to sort by recency, that would make it far more useful for me.

Easy enough. Added a toggle for showing results that are Dunno if it's actually useful, we'll have to see. I'm not one to shy away from feature creep though, and a lot of people are requesting these sorts of things...

wow, thanks for the quick action!
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