Links have been essential tools for navigating the web and sourcing information – but they are on the decline as tech companies try to keep audiences from clicking away.
Can we carve out a part of the internet please where we go back to super basic html pages that are a mix of self hosted hobby blogs and university research sites? It was good then. Everything’s gotten so noisy, and busy, and shit.
There is Neocities and a few other sites that allow you to make and share your own sites. Though some sites are more than just basic html, so experience will vary, but you can find basic pages dedicated to hobbies and such if you sift through them. Only problem with these sites/services, assuming the other ones are run like Neocities, is that you are given a pretty limited amount of space.
Links is just a browser, it doesn’t fix the websites themselves
Search engines gatekeeps websites away, making it borderline impossible to find anything
SEO optimized makes way too much noise to find anything meaningful
And JavaScript makes browsers like Links borderline unusable
Can we carve out a part of the internet please where we go back to super basic html pages that are a mix of self hosted hobby blogs and university research sites? It was good then. Everything’s gotten so noisy, and busy, and shit.
There is Neocities and a few other sites that allow you to make and share your own sites. Though some sites are more than just basic html, so experience will vary, but you can find basic pages dedicated to hobbies and such if you sift through them. Only problem with these sites/services, assuming the other ones are run like Neocities, is that you are given a pretty limited amount of space.
Gemini project is doing that
Try Wiby
There’s other types of “small web” out there too.
The browser you’re looking for is literally called Links.
Links is just a browser, it doesn’t fix the websites themselves Search engines gatekeeps websites away, making it borderline impossible to find anything SEO optimized makes way too much noise to find anything meaningful And JavaScript makes browsers like Links borderline unusable
Not my experience. Links just makes borderline unusable websites completely unusable.
Ah, yes, of course, foolish of me
Just use tor browser on strict mode and you’ll find it. They do exist.
Interesting. Is that because it blocks JavaScript, ads etc?
That and all the shitty sites that use invasive fingerprinting and then refuse to load because they can’t uniquely identity you
Time to build a new one and this time, dont tell investors.
“The first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two twice the price?”