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The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (www.marginalia.nu)
submitted 2 weeks ago by gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: link to sites. link to communities. don't just post content, but more importantly make people aware that the community exists.

if you post 10 articles but nobody knows that the community exists, that's worth less than if you only post 5 articles but 3 people read them.

link to communities that interest you in places where people might want to know about them. sticker some link on your irl shared gardening project. maybe to slrpnk.net or sth. Sticker the links to 3 tinkering/DIY communities on your local bike repair shop.

Links are as important as streets are to traffic. They get us from A to B. don't underbuild them.

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[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe we need web directories again, like what Yahoo originally was.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i'm too young for that :D

[–] tyler@programming.dev 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So you don’t know the wonders of geocities or stumbleupon then?

[–] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago

Oh man, I miss the early days of Stumbleupon. So many unique sites.

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Stumbleupon was the best.

Took me to a site once, where a person would write out what they're dealing with, and a random other person would send them an existing song. I assume it was all anonymous.

Like this one person posted about dealing with a horrible aunt, and I sent back Jonathan Coulton's "Someone is Crazy"

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Going by wording, sounds like what Piefed and Bluesky do? A bundle of communities/profiles by common interest?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Asked some AI, and appears to be that, though please correct me if I'm wrong.

But going by that, starting from the fediverse, maybe people could try to make a trend like "My Web Directory" / #MyWebDirectory, where he/she posts a list of recommended small sites? On microblog platforms, usually they seem to allow users to have pinned posts, and on threaded platforms, maybe the link to a post could be included in their bio or something.

[–] Panda@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's like phone books were for phone numbers. A categorised directory that allowed you to easily find the types of websites you were interested in.