Soulseek. Also ask for the rss feed in podcast chats I’m in.

Alt text - gif from adventure time of a robot made out of a toaster oven driving around in a circle on grass. Text over the image reads “why, creator? Does it please you to watch me struggle?”

I’ve been just using more specific/targeted search engines. I put them on a bookmarks page I coded and that’s my homepage when I open my browser. And then when I need just a general Google search without ai summary, my new tabs page goes to udm=14. Still not great - but fine when I just need to double check a url or search images.

I highly recommend Wiby and Marginalia for more indie/non-corporate website searches!

Oh also searching directly in Wikipedia when I’m looking up something that might have an entry there (science/history/whatever) that I just need an overview or definition of

I just made a free static site on neocities for my links. omg.lol looks like a cool option as well (open source but not free tho)

Neither of these are fedi/activity pub but they’re not so bloated/none of the tracking and privacy issues that linktr.ee has

I had never heard of him before. What’s his deal?

Lol this is such a bizarre comment. Back then, AI wasn’t scraping everything humans made for the profit of a few. It was a non-issue, and therefore you have no standing in claiming that “that was the whole point.”

This works as well on my phone as it does on my computer, and loads faster than most modern websites making it that much more accessible to MORE humans.

The web designer isn’t limiting access, they are expanding on it - for humans. The people actually sentient and able to understand their words rather than just copy and recontextualize them.

Passive voice made this headline borderline unreadable

Maybe a compromise could be including “US:” in the title, so others may scroll past