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> Subdomains of existing domains are totally fine Damn, another push to centralizing and walling off user content in 'fandoms', 'reddits' and other closed comm
by unglaublich 9d ago
> Subdomains of existing domains are totally fine
Damn, another push to centralizing and walling off user content in 'fandoms', 'reddits' and other closed communities?
Have the internet cards been handed out now, and are we in the end-game?
Will old domains resell for premiums like low-background-radiation steel?
- captainbland 9d agoIt wouldn't surprise me. It seems like a mirror of the social media move from social graphs to recommendation engines. You are either producer or consumer and never shall consumer be promoted organically.
- anal_reactor 9d agoThe answer is simple. Limit your time on social media the way you'd be limiting a child and focus on IRL interactions.
- KingMob 9d agoWords of wisdom to heed. Thank you, user anal_reactor :‑D
- anal_reactor 9d agoStay open for more nuggets of wisdom!
- captainbland 9d agoI also find IRL social interactions also want pacing to some degree. But I don't know, I find my brain is sort of wired for these sorts of novel, pseudonymous interactions from a young age.
- anal_reactor 9d agoYeah I get that. But treat them like candy - it's okay to eat a small dessert after lunch, it's okay to eat entire bucket of ice cream once in a while, but you know, your main diet needs to be quality stuff.
- TFNA 9d agoWhat if I want to spend my time discussing things that are not represented in my geographical region?
- mitxela 9d agoStart a club in your geographical region.
- anal_reactor 9d agoTravel. It's cheaper than ever.
- TFNA 9d agoThis response sounds like "let them eat cake". You realize a lot of people on the internet (even here on HN) are in the developing world and, whether due to lack of means or weak passports, can't necessarily travel to where the things that interest them can be found locally?
- jeanmichelselli 9d ago[flagged]
- HexPhantom 9d agoSearch used to feel more like infrastructure: put something useful on the web, link to it, and eventually people could find it
- Perz1val 9d agoNot the end, just google bleeding itself out as a search engine while LLMs take over. Chatgpt often links me random, actually decent sites that I wouldn't have gotten from a simple google search on first page, because it would've been exclusively seo slop
- bityard 9d agoChapGPT (and all other hosted L To me) still use a search engine behind the scenes whenever you ask a question. Often, it uses those seo slop sites as primary sources when formulating an answer. Which is why, even though hallucinations are now somewhat rare these days, you _still_ should independently verify their output for anything important.
- Ygg2 9d agoThat or Google is getting so unusable even Discord is a better search engine.
- no_wizard 9d agoI realize that this is a tangent but one of the more sad developments of recent developments as an advocate for open knowledge is how much of it is trapped on servers like discord that will never be indexed by any search engine. There isn’t even an ability to turn on a feature to have discord chats indexed or anything. I realize it’s not only discord but it’s illustrative of what I perceive as an issue
- mitxela 9d agoIt's no worse than how it used to be trapped in IRC greybeards and the solution, whatever it is, is presumably the same.
- walrus01 9d ago> Will old domains resell for premiums like low-background-radiation steel? This has been a thing for a long time in domain name resale for speculation or link farming or similar, domains that are aged with "backlinks" sell for more money. https://www.google.com/search?&q=domain+resale+backlinks https://www.google.com/search?&q=domain+resale+backlinks
- mitxela 9d agoIP addresses too. Everyone who trades IP blocks pays a premium for ones that haven't been used for spamming in a long time, so they can be the first in a long time to use them for spamming.
- chrismarlow9 8d agoPrivate blog networks is another term in that side of the world. They're explicitly designed to look legit even to a human but give link juice to the spam world (which also look legit to a human). And the HN crowd say "I can spot an AI website a mile away!!!". Well cool, and good for you, but many people cannot. In fact, if you can, they are glad you are so smart and are leaving. Why? Because you wont convert. The targets in the spam world (email and seo) that want to make money want the low hanging fruit. They want uneducated people to visit the site. I remember when google was still young, these same people wanted visitors from AOL. Why? lower traffic and much higher conversion. What kind of person uses AOL when google is available? An uneducated one and a new one to the internet. Or an older person who is likely to fall for a scheme. I suspect more and more visitors coming from google will be seen this way in the age of AI and social media searching. Easy targets. Whether it's true or not is debatable (maybe people just want to read a real webpage and have AI burnout). Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk.
- walrus01 8d agoI own a single English language dictionary word .net domain that is a common word related to lawsuits/legal activity and have been offered money to sell it. If I sell it, it will almost certainly become the front page of somebody's CRM lead generator for personal injury lawyers (or a blogspam site driving traffic to same through affiliate links). People who work in actual infrastructure building tech may not know or have any reason to pay attentino to how many shady "affiliate" networks there are in existence for click traffic.
- HexPhantom 9d agoThe really perverse bit is that this rewards exactly the kind of consolidation Google's anti-spam changes are presumably meant to fight
- marcosdumay 9d ago> Have the internet cards been handed out now, and are we in the end-game? The big companies are trying to corral and kill everybody else, yes. That's not some "end-game", though. It's just powerful anti-social entities doing their thing while society refuses to punish them.
- flyinghamster 8d ago> Will old domains resell for premiums like low-background-radiation steel? See also: any number of user-contributed sites that were bought by big players and basically parked. Does anyone even go to mp3.com for any real reason other than to see if anything has been done with it since the original was forced offline? I suspect they'll eventually unload it to someone who forks over enough money.