[eddiepete]

My idea is admittedly half-baked, but I've been thinking of the concept of an alternative web. I don't know how it would work. Ignoring implementation for a second, what if you could stay within a network of non-corporate content, search engines, etc.? I feel like everyday I find neat websites on Hacker News built by real people for fun and community, but then my daily web browsing activity doesn't feel like this. If I do one Google or DuckDuckGo search, I'm inevitably going to land on some site that is at least cluttered with SEO garbage, even if it's an individual person's blog (cooking blogs are a great example). I guess my criteria for what sites would get included in this are not well defined. Maybe I just want the old web back.

[jfengel]

Does anything really need to be built for that? From the first moment, you were only interested in a fraction of the Web. There has been a constant arms race between the search engines and the optimizers. We have always relied on suggestions from friends to sort out the "good" content (for whatever definition of "good").

There's much more total stuff now, and probably the fraction of "good" stuff is much smaller. But the total amount of it as at least as high.

[Joe_Cool]

So like: https://geminiprotocol.net/

They claim the protocol is resilient to enshittification.