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Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why

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238 points nafnlj | 4 comments | 12 Dec 25 01:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.816s | source
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echelon ◴[12 Dec 25 06:01 UTC] No.46241293[source]▶
We need a P2P internet.

No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted.

When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature.

Like RSS but better. Fully distributed.

Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest graphs.

Content is ephemeral but can also live forever if any nodes keep rebroadcasting it. Every post has a unique ID, so you can search for it later in the swarm or some persistent index utility.

The Internet should have become fully p2p. That would have been magical. But platforms stole the limelight just as the majority of the rest of the world got online.

If we nerds had but a few more years...

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1. bsder ◴[12 Dec 25 06:44 UTC] No.46241474[source]▶
No, you need to bust up Google as the monopolist it is.

YouTube should get split out and then broken up. Google Search should get split out and broken up. etc.

This is not a problem you solve with code. This is a problem you solve with law.

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2. emsign ◴[12 Dec 25 07:38 UTC] No.46241783[source]▶
Yes. It's a political problem and a very old one. That's why we also already have solutions for it, antitrust laws and other regulations to ensure competition and fairness in the market, to keep it free. Governments just have to keep funding and enabling these institutions.
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3. AnthonyMouse ◴[12 Dec 25 10:31 UTC] No.46242758[source]▶
> This is not a problem you solve with code. This is a problem you solve with law.

When the DMCA was a bill, people were saying that the anti-circumvention provision was going to be used to monopolize playback devices. They were ignored, it was passed, and now it's being used to monopolize not just playback devices but also phones.

Here's the test for "can you rely on the government here": Have they repealed it yet? The answer is still no, so how can you expect them to do something about it when they're still actively making it worse?

Now try to imagine the world where the Free Software Foundation never existed, Berkeley never released the source code to BSD and Netscape was bought by Oracle instead of being forked into Firefox. As if the code doesn't matter.

4. Terr_ ◴[12 Dec 25 10:32 UTC] No.46242764[source]▶
There are very few things I'd consider a silver bullet for a lot of problems, but antitrust enforcement to break up near-monopolies is one of them.