Yeah, I see that. I must have just been lucky with my choice of search terms. I concede, its worse. The AI function shows them though, which is due to it crawling the tags? I don’t know.

I havent used google in a long time, I switched to Kagi and it works.

irony machine neocities

My first duckduckgo result was a scam result site for that domain to check if it was safe, lol.

Second result was the creators website page that linked back to neocities.

The duckduck AI result at the top however was a direct link to the neocities page. Interesting.

Kagi’s results were first result was the link.

I concede though, it is hit and miss with Duckduckgo, even doing site:neocities.org

Well is that true? I searched duckduckgo and kagi something and neocities and both gave results. Bing did not.

Edit: Seems like I got lucky with search terms. Often it returns nothing the more terms I try. The AI tool in ddg always returns sites so thats weird.

Well whateever, I switched to Kagi anyways.

More than I would have thought, but, 1.5 million html documents on a single site - does anyone go there looking for anything?

I always just made my own sites, or hosted my own, a static site is easy enough. I wouldn’t want to be lumped in with a free site. Warned a lot of people that putting your stuff on geocities was going to be a bad idea, and they almost disappeared altogether.

But you mentioning Github really is enlightening, because that is the other super easy way to make free sites as long as you have the domain name. So if you had a free geocities site, but owned a domain the redirected to your specific page would it crawl it?

In any case a search engine IS USELESS if they arbitrarily cut out any domain. No matter what they host.

Ok, same question. People use neocities?

I agree that happens, but it has nothing to do with what op said. They didn’t want a solution, they wanted a link to where the problem was being discussed so they could work out a solution.

People seem to really confure the difference between asking an llm how to patch a boat vs where did people discuss ways to patch a boat.

Good for them using peertube. Thats a great thing.

Fair enough. Still all that commercialization just makes me not want to watch linus even more. Fortunately I don’t now, so no big deal.

Yeah, but the original post was on you tube, so it’s still all of it.

You mean that way AND Google ads.

At least it’s full disclosure I guess. Still yuck.

All that affiliate crap. Yuck.

It will have them if you enter them, street complete is easy to use.

I liked Unity, but Ubuntu has always been a crashy mess.

Well yeah. Plastic isn’t really recyclable it’s all been a scam.

I am at the point where you tube is now a rare choice. I am tired of the stupid games and adblock and trying to not log in.

Fuck it, I can do without.

My point was that you would think that Lemmy users of all people would at least be more open to dropping the big platforms. If most of the users here are pushing back, then we really are fucked.

Risk was great in black and white on the first apple macs.

Same game, nothing changed. But the quick outcomes of each war and troop movement is so easy that the game goes by fairly quickly.

And nobody cares enough to do anything about, not even the consumers. Meta is building a new AI and data facility larger than disney land. They have the money thanks to face book and instagram.

But you tell people, “hey if you care maybe do the simplest thing and quit using those products”, and all you get is push back. Even here on Lemmy. They would rather their lives be worse than take the slightest inconvenience.

Yeah I am sure some people do that. But I wouldn’t. Some people eat dirt too.