On 03/09/2023 04:36, Thaths via Silklist wrote:
My wife recently griped to me that search engines only seem to search *recent* things - the wealth of content in old blog posts and so on don't seem to come up in search results unless you're very very specific with the search terms, while recent social media posts rank highly. This led me to surmise that social media has dominated the Internet with content that is recency-based; it's all feeds of The Latest Things, endless novelty, a TV on in the background rather than a library. I can certainly see how the former attracts funding from advertising business models while the latter becomes neglected.From the earliest days online, which for me was the early 90's, what drew me to the internet was partly the information that was available online, and equally the social aspect of communicating with someone else (maybe)far away.
I, like Tim, am very hopeful of federated services, that allow for collective funding by the users rather than depending on the whims of billionaries (and am on the Fediverse myself as https://fosstodon.org/@kitten_tech ) - a model I've also been hyping since before it was cool ;-)
https://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2018/04/22/dont-fund-your-online-business-with-advertising-itll-only-make-everyone-hate-you/ -- Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
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