Gregory's ServerInternet search sucks now.
Making a classic "search engine" requires obscene amounts of money and resources, so creating direct competition is not a realistic option.
But what if we had a way to each take our own personal bookmarks and link collections, and share them, using a federated protocol?
My fifty sites, your sixty-five links, some friends and their contributions... All hand-selected and vetted, manually tagged and organized by real people... Hosted on small, volunteer-run servers...
What if web search results were organized not by "how many ad dollars did this site generate for the search company" but rather something like "someone you know directly tagged this site, and someone twice-removed tagged this other site so it's lower priority"?
Internet search sucks now.
Making a classic "search engine" requires obscene amounts of money and resources, so creating direct competition is not a realistic option.
But what if we had a way to each take our own personal bookmarks and link collections, and share them, using a federated protocol?
My fifty sites, your sixty-five links, some friends and their contributions... All hand-selected and vetted, manually tagged and organized by real people... Hosted on small, volunteer-run servers...
@mordremoth i wonder how well link aggregators like that work for specific researches (debugging issues, needing precise info on niche subjects)
@mordremoth We used to have that, it was called a web ring.
@mordremoth It's still corporare silo hell, but I've had a great experience with are.na. Being able to see who saved the same links as you really helps discovering stuff