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1. Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 03-Jan-2022 00:17:48 UTC Nolan

   This HN thread captures some of my despair over the direction the web is heading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136

   "I also don't think that people are creating websites anymore? Where is there supposed to be info for the search engine to crawl? All real user content is on reddit, instagram, twitter and youtube."

   "[The WWW] is rapidly becoming a defunct protocol, the culmination of a decades-long shift in the Internet's center of mass away from browsers and towards centralized and commercialized apps."

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   • Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Monday, 03-Jan-2022 11:39:16 UTC Nolan

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     Of course Google's properties are all crawlable (so they can be listed on Google), but you can imagine that if Reddit closes its doors and TikTok displaces YouTube, then… what's left? Wikipedia? And a sea of SEO spam?

     Of course there are also a bunch of old-timers like me who still have an old-fashioned blog (I say "old-timer," although I'm in my 30s), but people aren't going to want to hear from old-timers forever. If the good stuff is on Insta/TikTok/etc then people will search there.

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