Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post today. You'll probably never find it. Google won't show it to you. Social media buried it under engagement bait.

Bubbles tries to surface it. Community voting applied to thousands of personal, independent blogs, with identity and discussion routed through the Fediverse.

Hacker News and Lobste.rs have community voting figured out, but non-tech content gets drowned by the tech majority. Kagi Small Web curates thousands of personal sites, but has no community-driven ranking. Blog directories help you find blogs, not today's best blog post. Social platforms own the conversation. Mastodon is decentralized and ad-free, but you only see what the people you follow share. RSS is great, but solitary. There's no collective signal telling you what's worth reading today.

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Piccalilli shares links!

Likes, upvotes, replies, friending. What if it’s all just linking? In fact, what if linking is actually more meaningful!

They can be dated.

Now let’s turn to categories. A small directory doesn’t need a full-blown hierachy—the hierarchy shouldn’t dwarf the collection.

A structure for a flat directory (in one file or one file per entry) can be:

---
Link Title
url://something/something
*topic/subtopic format time-depth
Markdown-formatted *description* goes here.

• topic/subtopic is a two-level ad-hoc categorization similar to a tag. A blog may cover multiple categories, but I’m not sure if I’ll tackle that. I’m actually thinking this answers the question, “Why do I visit this site? What is it giving me?” So a category might be supernatural/ghosts if I go there to get my fix of ghosts; or, it could be writing/essays for a blog I visit to get a variety of longform. An asterisk would indicate that the blog is a current feature among this topic (and this designation will change periodically.)
• format could be: ‘blog’, ‘podcast’, ‘homepage’, a single ‘pdf’ or ‘image’, etc.
• time-depth indicates the length one can expect to spend at this link. It could be an image that only requires a single second. It could be a decade worth of blog entries that is practically limitless.

The other items: author, url and description—these are simply metadata that would be collected.
The directory would then allow discovery by any of these angles. You could go down by topic or you could view by ‘time depth’.

A directory of the web

AMP email will silently be less used.

Email encryption, even if gmail is anouncing so, is not a win yet.

Email as the Interface can be a great way indeed. See https://shaarli.lyokolux.space/shaare/RT9psQ

Notion integrated emails in 2024. See https://www.notion.com/product/mail. All services want to integrate emails. Other tools are doing so.

1. Please make each program do one thing well
2. It's only an add-on
3. it more complexity than first though: dates of brith, email address patterns, time zones, diferent names of humans...
4. A waste of developer time

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