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Stumbleupon was fun.
I miss old web shit.
Ninety zeros dot com was one of the Internet's weirdest best things.
Maia Arson Crimew, one of my favorite hackers, is in a webring https://maia.crimew.gay
Oh man that site looks just like the internet before it started to suck.
Kagi is also experimenting with small web
Man I wanna like Kagi but I keep reading batshit things from its founder
I'm interested in the batshit, I love weird internet lore...
Be like him, but don't copy the batshit.
This is like the old StumbleUpon! Thanks for this!
Man what a trip, felt like I was hopping around the old web again.
Is the StumbleUpon thing not something Mozilla could do with Pocket?
What would be really cool would be an open source, federated version of DMOZ
how would you federate? it comes natural for lemmy to have each community on a seperate server, but how would you do this for a project like dmoz?
i don't think it would be a good idea that one server could own "art" for example, and no one else could contribute. and on the other side it would not be a good idea if everyone could add sites for "art" as then it's just a federated wiki? you still would have to fight spam? do all entries in "art" have the same priority? or should there be some voting, or verifying from other instances maybe? but then rough instances could vote for each other?!
how big is the spam problem on lemmy?
I don't know, but it could be interesting to try. I could easily imagine topic-focussed servers that go into more depth on specific topics. Perhaps you would only federate things that are at a high level, or directly linked. Kinda like a wiki, but with each community doing it's own decentralised curation and moderation..
I haven't seen any spam on Lemmy yet, and only a tiny amount on mastodon (I'm much more active there).
Yes, please!
hexbear's trans comm just hooked into one! super cool