[layer8]

People write and publish without such incentives, without the goal of turning up on page 1 of Google search results, and don’t care about being “beaten” by whatever alternative publication. And at least so far, truly good and useful content generally does find its audience, even without SSO.

There’s also a lot of content that can’t be meaningfully replaced by LLMs, such as people writing about their side projects (such as the current top HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41154135), product reviews, or more generally, reports of personal experiences, or personal takes on whatever topic.

[dageshi]

If that were truly the case, this thread would not exist.

The truth is a decade ago the quality of sites you could find and therefore the quality of search results were way higher, back then google was literally magic in terms of finding answers to questions.

It is far, far from that now.

[layer8]

I fully agree that the experience has degraded (though defaulting to verbatim search helps a lot IME). However, I was responding to the assertion that the web is dead and that people will stop publishing on it, which I see little basis for.