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It’s kind of indicative of how bad the web has gotten that twitter and reddit still have users. Digg completely imploded over much less than this. Just that back in 2010, there was somewhere else to go.

inb4 Lemmy. I get it, but we’re not there yet.

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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I love Lemmy but I really, really miss the old web. Back when people would just create their own website and put it out there to share their niche interest with the world. People just organically linked their sites to each other to form web rings, an easy method of federation without any reliance on sophisticated server-side software.

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- amanda@aggregatet.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I still do this!
  
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  - nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Does anyone find your stuff? Search engines seem to be less and less capable of finding indie websites and pick most results to shopping and/or image results, or else if it’s a question it goes Reddit/quora/stack exchange before any search results.
    
    I finally shut off my old self hosted Wordpress last year because traffic had dwindled to a couple hits a month or less. Besides the constant bot traffic trying to hijack the site.
    
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    amanda@aggregatet.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    No idea honesty, I don’t collect metrics.
    
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- The_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The heyday of the forums. For about 2 years the combination of Tapatalk and forums was awesome. Centralized interface with no ads, all the discussion.
  
  Then they both gutted their functionality and spammed in the ads.
  
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- fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  They’re still around.
  
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  - chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    How do I find them though? I would love a search engine that only finds these sites and excludes all the commercial ones and all the ad spam.
    
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    fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Good news! search.marginalia.nu
    
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thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The makeup of web users has changed a lot since 2010. The average web surfer was a lot less passive in attitude in decades past.

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- balancedchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I hate listening to my younger brother talk about technology. He is just a sheep in an apple pen, and perfectly happy. I don’t get it.
  
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