webring VS RSS-Link-Database

I like this author's idea of curating bookmark lists, but I think they are most effective when two criteria are followed: (1) keep the list small, (2) write small notes about each entry.

For example, the bookmarks list the author links to (https://www.marginalia.nu/links/bookmarks/) has 48 URLs annotated only by category. That's too many for my tiny brain to handle and I move on.

A webring like Hundred Rabbits' (https://webring.xxiivv.com/) has 203 entries. For me, this is in the same category as 48. (It also reminds me of those "Awesome X" lists on GitHub that end up flooded with hundreds of links.)

To attempt an example of what I mean, here's the bookmark list I publish on my website:

- Bret Victor (http://worrydream.com/) • interaction and abstraction

We're out here, just not in your workplace. Poke around in more decentralized tech spaces like federated social media and self-hosting groups. Talk to free software people, find local users' groups. As far as non-profits go, you may be interested in the EFF or the Internet Archive. Phrack Magazine (http://phrack.org/) is a very-long-running webzine for hackers, although it's been updating less and less frequently, and there are lots and lots and lots of webrings of little self-hosted sites which lean leftist. (see: https://webring.xxiivv.com/) There are also some in-person tech collectives like Cyberia: https://cyberia.club/ As far as individuals go, I don't believe Phineas Fisher has been caught yet, and of course there's Maia Arson Crimew (https://maia.crimew.gay/) who leaked the no-fly list.

XXIIVV Webring - https://github.com/XXIIVV/webring

On the other hand it is not 1995. Time has moved on. I wrote a Simple RSS feed, that also serves as search engine for bookmarks.

I am able to run it in attick on raspberry pi. We do not have to rely so heavily on google.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

It is true that it does not serve me as google, or kagi replacement. It is a very nice addition though.

With a little bit off determination I do not have to be so dependent on google.

Here is also a dump of known domains. Some are personal.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

...and my bookmarks

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

Some more years, and google can go to hell.

[4] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

These are exported then to github repositories:

[5] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database - bookmarks

[6] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023 - 2023 year news headlines

[7] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - all known to me domains, and RSS feeds

My own repositories:

- bookmarked entries https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

- mostly domains https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

- all 'news' from 2023 https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023

I am using my own Django program to capture and manage links https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive.

That is why I wrote [1] for myself. It stores links in database, which I can query. Everything is later on exported, like in [2] and [3]. I can browse history, I can find useful data. I do not say it has replaced google for me. It is a nice addition that helped me gather data I encounter on the Internet.

It is a link database, at first glance resembles Reddit clone, but my focus is on creating link database, not on providing social media experience cancer.

Links:

[1] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive

[2] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

[3] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023

- https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2022 - all captured links in 2022

- I think newsboat reader does not provide advanced search mechanism

There is also a repo in which I store entries which I find interesting, useful: https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database