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Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by zozbot234 »

8organicbits wrote: post #12

I was looking at the RSS spec a while back to figure out how the category field was supposed to work and ended up digging up web directory history. https://alexsci.com/blog/rss-categories/ Syndic8, DMOZ, NewsIsFree, and TX (lost to history?) used the same taxonomy approach seen on ooh.directory. All are defunct now, but DMOZ appears to live on as curlie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories Technical…

Taxonomy labels are often deduplicated on Wikidata, the unofficial "hub" of the modern Semantic Web. There's already a defined property for matching DMOZ/Curlie labels, and others could be added if relevant.

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

gesis wrote: post #5
simonw wrote: post #3

Given how worried everyone is about the AI slopocalypse where the internet is drowned in LLM-generated junk content maybe it's time for a resurgence of human curated directories like this one.

Let's bring back the webring.

I'm part of one and I don't think it really promotes discoverability. What could work would be some kind of search engine restricted to said webring to make a button to list similar articles. At least I would click on such a button!

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by roxolotl »

gesis wrote: post #5
simonw wrote: post #3

Given how worried everyone is about the AI slopocalypse where the internet is drowned in LLM-generated junk content maybe it's time for a resurgence of human curated directories like this one.

Let's bring back the webring.

The no ai webring is full of really unique stuff. There’s definitively people out there still doing webrings. Now we need a metawebring.

https://baccyflap.com/noai/

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by cosmicgadget »

nefsim wrote: post #7

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My buddy and I are building an index with a category interface like this one (and indieseek.xyz).

We index anything we consider authentic and contentful, but our category interface (mostly) consists of small web pages. Happy to hear any feedback.

Link: https://outerweb.org/explore-sorted

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by cosmicgadget »

engelo_b wrote: post #13

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I'm not sure where they are at this moment, but a while back Google seemed to abandon EEAT and SEOed pages in favor of pure domain authority. So it no longer mattered if you page had the all-important "Key Takeaways".

Blogs are still discoverable via aggregators and link sharing. But those are ephemeral, directories like this and search engines like marginalia are important resources.

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by cosmicgadget »

roxolotl wrote: post #33
gesis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's bring back the webring.

The no ai webring is full of really unique stuff. There’s definitively people out there still doing webrings. Now we need a metawebring. https://baccyflap.com/noai/

Slop sucks and all, but those abandoned "let's make pages look like geocities" sites are pretty tiresome.

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by freetonik »

I also maintain a human-curated directory (and search engine) of personal blogs at https://minifeed.net

You can submit a blog here: https://minifeed.net/suggest

Criteria is pretty simple:

- Must be written by a human.

- Must be in English (for now).

- Must have a valid RSS feed.

- Must not be purely a "micro-blog", i.e. must have some content other than tweet-sized status updates or links.

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by rebel_druid »

From what I have seen over the years, the problem with such aggregation sites has been that the maintainer eventually loses interest or does not renew the domain etc.

The only way to maintain long term interest in such sites would be to have it as a github site/or a long term commitment, community contributions with some kind of community filtering/voting to maintain the quality of submissions.

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by vaylian »

simonw wrote: post #20
myth_drannon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was tried before (e.g. Dmoz) and it does not work after it becomes popular. I'm thinking more like just taking all the text files from 80-90s and making a separate static, frozen in time internet.

Dmoz was trying to replicate the Yahoo! style of directory, which requires being comprehensive. Today we don't need comprehensive, we need maximum signal and minimum noise.

I'd like to argue that Wikipedia also tries to be comprehensive within the limits of relevant topics. And overall, Wikipedia still seems to be going strong.
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