With the frustrations from using the usual search engines growing I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

It seems we’ve poisoned the well by allowing the proliferation of advertising interests to dominate the web.

Like how hard would it be to make your own non-commercial index?

Only human made sites that aren’t related to buying, selling, marketing, etc.

Could that be a federated open-source project?

  • MrOtingocni@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 days ago

    I shouldn’t have said anything at all because now people much smarter than me are going down a rabbit hole instead the main gist I was trying to convey. 😵‍💫

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      I didn’t mean to discourage you! I just meant to point you to the right technology to learn about.

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      7 days ago

      Yes, you should have commented what you did, because [eventually] someone gave you an explanation of why what you thought isn’t as good as you thought it was. Also… Why be “smart” and “interesting” when you can be a collection of 300 tangential rabbit hole topics in a trench coat?

      Me though? I chose to be a library of sick references in a hunched human form.