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ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You just described the categories pages many search engines had before Google. Or proto Web 2.0 bookmark sharing sites like del.icio.us. Sites like Metafilter also existed as a kind of Internet index before everyone was adding reddit.com to their Googling. It’s a laudable idea, but these systems all seem to fall prey to market manipulation in much the same way that SEO helped kill Google.

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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s interesting that you mention MetaFilter, because they’re literally in the process of transitioning fully to a non-profit organization.

…metafilter.com/…/MeFi-Nonprofit-Update-March-26-…

They’re the only aggregator that still isn’t flooded with ads and has pretty decent moderation policies.

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- rollingFlint@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wow, that’s really neat.
  
  Thanks for letting me know about MetaFilter and its transition to NPO. This really seems like a great move for the site.
  
  I’ve heard of the site before, but haven’t had the chance to try it before. Guess a bit late is better than never, right? :D
  
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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I was thinking on something slightly different. It would be automatic; a bit more like “federated Google” and less like old style indexing sites. It’s something like this:

there are central servers with info about pages on the internet

you perform searches through a program or add-on (let’s call it “the software”)

as you’re using the software, performing your search, it’ll also crawl the web and assign a “desirability” value to the pages, with that info being added to the server that you’re using

the algorithm is open and, if you so desire, you can create your own server and fork the algorithm

It would be vulnerable to SEO, but less so than Google - because SEO tailored to the algorithm being used by one server won’t necessarily work well for another server.

Please, however, note that this is “ideas guy” tier. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s unviable, for some reason that I don’t know.
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- frezik@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I think you could do it in Lemmy itself combined with RSS feeds. The mods would curate a list of RSS feeds, and use the keywords to pick the ones for a bot to automatically post (which means if a programming blog did a post about windsurfing, it wouldn’t show up as long as the meta keywords didn’t match). Mods could take suggestions each week for feeds to add or remove.
  
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