[ajmurmann]

Hard to proof this but anecdotally lots of energy that used to go into people's hobby or passion websites now is going into digital platforms like reddit, pinterest or Twitter, or if lucky substack or Medium. Some of those are walled gardens and Reddit as discussed here is where people now search. Much less out on the actual net

[marginalia_nu]

Well, since I actually run a search engine looking for this sort of stuff, I think I'm able to demonstrate that a lot of what was out on the net is still there, just exceptionally hard to find on Google.

Admittedly more in some areas than others.

[ajmurmann]

Hah, I didn't catch that I was responding to you. Definitely would defer to your experience. Love your search engine btw. It brings the fun back to the web!

[marginalia_nu]

If anything I think I'm only scraping the surface, since a lot of my methods involve ruthlessly discarding data that doesn't live up to a fairly blunt set of criteria. I think with something like a headless browser (and a lot more processing power), I could probably use laxer standards and find even more good stuff.