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First of all, I want to say congrats to cat for two years of running their
phlog Fax Sex.[0] But something in particular caught my eye. To quote:
The web was once a wonderful place. I remember when Yahoo! was
curated by human beings, not algorithms. I remember blogs written
by people about their lives, not written by influencers about
the products they've been handed. I remember when advertising
was a rare occurrence instead of the framework sites are built on.
Yeah, I have to agree with this sentiment I don't think the Web itself is bad,
just heavily abused by a bunch of very greedy and very ignorant people. Many of
these people being actual developers doesn't really help matters, either.
If you want a couple of examples of very good places on the web, I can name two
without fail: Curlie and Dreamwidth.
Curlie[1] is what became of the former Open Directory Project (DMOZ), with the
community taking over after AOL shut the project down during the creation of
Oath. It's a web directory curated by people[2], rather than algorithms and SEO
gaming, and I absolutely love it. I've supported them since the DMOZ days
/because/ of their desire to keep it community-based, and I do try to continue
supporting them where I can.
Dreamwidth[3] is a community-developed open source version of LiveJournal, from
before its purchase by their current owners. It doesn't have modernized
"features" shoehorned into it, and everything is community oriented, down to
them taking donations and providing paid plans over forcing ads on anyone. The
staff are amazingly nice as well, and every interaction I've had there has been
a positive one.
There are plenty of other examples, though many are likely lost if you try to
do a search for them on any web crawling engine. Curlie should help with some,
though.
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[0]:
gopher://baud.baby/0/phlog/fs20190616.txt
[1]:
https://curlie.org/
[2]: I won't say "humans", because I am dragonkin, and there are other *kin who
help there.
[3]:
https://dreamwidth.org/