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53 points elektor | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 17:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source

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deadbabe ◴[26 Jun 25 18:38 UTC] No.44390071[source]▶

The exciting thing about search engines becoming useless as a traffic source, is that small publishers and blogs will eventually learn to adopt old technologies to gain traffic: web rings and links sections.

This means if you like a blog, there could now be a way to organically discover other blogs similar to it, by following links across multiple sites.

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1. candiddevmike ◴[26 Jun 25 18:54 UTC] No.44390223[source]▶

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No one knows what a web ring is, and there's no incentive for folks to leave their preferred "attention theme parks" that have been meticulously curated by big tech.

There will not be a second decentralized web renaissance. We are all too busy, lazy, and enthralled by low effort content, like posting on HN.

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