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Kagi Small Web
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#52the smallwebsite is delightful. It reminds me of Stumbleupon, which I miss dearly.
And of course it showed me Questionable Content, which I first got to via stumbleupon.
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#53And yet in the article they reference their Discord channel and Twitter sigh
They also mentioned their Microsoft GitHub forge to file issues. They really want you to create proprietary accounts to interact with them. You’d think a small web initiative would be led with small, decentralized/federated, libre software choices.
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#54And yet in the article they reference their Discord channel and Twitter sigh
Can't reinvent everything all at once lol.
There’s not much to reinvent. They could have setup & hosted an XMPP server with MUCs & microblogged posts on whatever ActivityPub option they chose (or similar softwares).
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#55Nice, but I can't figure out how to search it. The "Small Web" site linked to in the article just shows a number of links to Kagi articles.
It sounds like it’s integrated into Kagi’s main results and you can use the API to reference only the small web results, but I also don’t see a way for a Kagi search user to toggle “small web” results as a lens or whatever. I assume and hope that may be added in the future.
You are right, this is a good idea and I encourage you to post it on kagifeedback.org as a feature suggestion.
In the meantime you can toggle the 'non-commercial web' lens which will include KSW (and some other things).
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#56the smallwebsite is delightful. It reminds me of Stumbleupon, which I miss dearly. And of course it showed me Questionable Content, which I first got to via stumbleupon.
I also thought right away about stumbled upon. It was an amazing idea and great implementation too.
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#57> These notes will vanish in about a week as we cycle in new content - emphasizing the fleeting, imperfect nature of the small web.
Kagi could just admit they don't want to moderate notes or store them permanently. No need to push down the small web, because a lot of small sites preserve their content.
I get that Kagi probably has data indicating the reality of how often sites down, but it seems from my experience that content in big platforms disappears often as well, even in the cases where the creator hadn't forgotten about it. The "Small web" websites made by a creator that cares have the room to be much more permanent.
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#59Great initiative, but it feels like they're not quite eating their own dogfood. This post contains a link titled "highlighting blog posts from HN users" which goes to Twitter — a massive centralized social media app that's pretty much the opposite of "small web".
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ability to block SEO garbage sites like GeeksForGeeks and not filling the first 3-5 results with ads is worth it alone. Not to mention the ability to boost certain sites results over others on a personalized level. Unfortunately for me, I end up regularly going over the "Pro" tier of searches a month (partially because I accidentally search all the time, but also I'm heavy search-engine user) is a bit of a letdow…
> I end up regularly going over the "Pro" tier of searches a month (partially because I accidentally search all the time, but also I'm heavy search-engine user) is a bit of a letdown. I hadn't considered this aspect of Kagi yet. I'm not a subscriber at this point, but I am strongly considering it. But I use search instead of typing domain names directly to avoid the typo phishing style attacks. I wonder how much "art…
Make better use of bookmarks and you won't need to use a search engine as a first-line phishing defense.
Just a suggestion. Search engines do supply their results with a level of confidence, and you're not wrong to use them like that.