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A return to visiting websites directly rather than searching seems to have been forced upon us. Would it be useful to build a wiki for web resources so people can find and bookmark websites by topic? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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For example (just as rough proof of concept)

Research articles: Pretty much any academic library website for published stuff, arxiv.org for white papers in computer science and math, pubmed for biosciences

audio equipment: gearspace.com

Encyclopedia: Wikipedia

Thesaurus: Wordhippo.com

The idea is to avoid needing to visit a search engine. Might be a high idea.

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[–] Moltz@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not sure if this will help, but I recently started an independent site covering tech and gaming. It isn't monetized, no pop ups, no asking for your email for a newsletter. Zero modern annoyances, just a good old fashioned blog from longtime experts in the field.

I've called it Guilty Gamer, you can find it here.

We are covering things like gaming, retro gaming, e-readers, mechanical keyboards, and really anything else that strikes our fancy. Basically, the site was born out of the demise of the industry. As the mainstream is pumping out AI-written slop to please Google's bots, we are busy making content for humans by humans.

We are also ignoring the majority of SEO practices, which means it is a site built with direct navigation in mind, which is why I wanted to reply and share. It's heartening to see others also realizing bookmarks may be the wave of the future thanks to Google killing the open web.