Post #3147139
2026-05-21 22:13 UTC
@BillySmith@social.coop @colinmford@typo.social We may need to reinvent the search engine, curated lists and webrings.
Google’s secret sauce once was page ranking by links pointing to a site, maybe we need something like page ranking by cryptographic chains of human trust. A good result is a result with a source that has a chain of human trust back to me and no ads.
For a start: “we count the number of uBO blocked requests on the page, and if too many (threshold is set to 5), we kick it out” https://teclis.com
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@paled@mastodon.social 2026-05-21 23:14
@chris@mstdn.strafpla.net @BillySmith@social.coop @colinmford@typo.social I will look into using this soon. I'm aware of some other search engines that are catered towards the indie web, like @marginalia@mastodon.social , but I somehow don't use them at all. I do agree that hand-curated link directories are the way to go in improving navigation on the current internet.
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@bitterdonald@mastodon.scot 2026-05-23 13:07
@chris@mstdn.strafpla.net @BillySmith@social.coop @colinmford@typo.social Curated lists and webrings are absolutely essential at this point.