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xantoxis@lemmy.world 11 months agoKagi is very good and I’m happy to be paying for it, but you were right in your second paragraph. It’s not all google. Signal to noise in the web has gone way off. We need to throw out this Internet, it’s gone bad
send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Story time! There is series by Tad Williams called “otherland” - it’s a rift in the standard stuck in vr story.
Anywho. There is a group of hackers, weirdos and nerds who did not like the corporate vr experience and built their own (treehouse). In all honesty it’s an expansion of the tor project.
But it’s what I hope for. A place to end up in the web that’s not saturated to hell and back by corporate interests, and you need to know someone for the ladder to be let down and you to be let in.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 11 months ago
For me the fediverse has become that “alternative web” but of course it has its limits… But I’m too young to judge, google has been crap as long as I can remember. Regarding the alternative web, I could imagine a community run search engine operating on an alow list basis inorder to keep any capitalist crap out.
Also I’ll have to read that book (:
send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Do read it. But also keep in mind the time the books where published.
Honestly I think the fedverse (or it’s successors) will adopt some of the components of tor (or it’s successors) and merge into something new.
thegreatgarbo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
google has been crap as long as I can remember.
Eh what’s that sonny? I member when the term “Google” meant sumpin! *Stomps off angrily waving his cane *
NotAFakeHumanoid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just started book 2 in the series, and so far I’m loving it, it feels so topical at the moment. Plus I really like Tad’s writing. This series is the first I’ve read of his, but I’m deff gonna grab more of his work.
send_me_your_ink@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Fair warning. For me book 3 was a bit of a slog, but seeing everything come together in book 4 was worth it.
governorkeagan@lemdro.id 11 months ago
I’m about 60% through the first book, I can’t get enough of it!