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Posted by rocketpastsix 1 day ago

Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes(theindex.fyi)
I saw a comment here about how there are so many indexes of indie sites, blogs, etc but there wasn't an index of all the indexes. So I built it. It doesn't require a log in, just go browse! I've curated about 30 or so, but there is a submission form if there are ones I am missing.

Also happy to take UI improvements because I am not great in that area!

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paustint 21 hours ago|
refined.blog doesn't work, goes to a GoDaddy page.
rocketpastsix 21 hours ago|
Thanks for the heads up! I’ll check it out when I’m back from running errands
snisarenko 22 hours ago||
As the internet gets filled with AI slop, these kind of indexes of real human thought are going to become more important.
rocketpastsix 21 hours ago||
Agreed, hopefully someone finds a fun index that they like and it leads them to a new blog or site
mmooss 15 hours ago||
The Internet was mostly slop before LLMs. While LLM automation can increase it by orders of magnitude, we've long needed curated indexes.
ares623 15 hours ago||
This is a tangent, but what I'd really like to see is for a "movement" of sorts where site owners explicitly only allow Kagi* as the only crawler for their site.

A way of saying "you know what, I've seen what Google has wrought, but they had some good ideas and utility at the start so I'd like Kagi to still crawl my site but no one else".

I don't know if that's even technically possible.

* I say Kagi here since they're the most prominent one I know of that are thinking about this problem. I am aware that that they too can change in the future.

jolmg 15 hours ago||
I don't understand why you'd want to advocate for creating a new monopoly. Having a rich, diverse market of competing search engines would be the ideal.
ares623 15 hours ago||
That's part of my point. We already tried a rich, diverse market of competing search engines and it still ended up in a monopoly. In fact I would argue it was inevitable.

At least this way the site owners get to choose their monopoly master. So in a way it's democratized. If Google can be blocked successfully (big IF), then Kagi can as well if they change their tune.

zahlman 12 hours ago||
"Allow"? What are they doing to do about it?
yesitcan 15 hours ago||
Now we just need theindexindex (an index of indices of indie web/blog indexes).

It would just have one link to this site.

8organicbits 14 hours ago||
Good idea, I added a list to the indieweb wiki: https://indieweb.org/indieweb_directory#Directories_of_direc...

I've added three :)

wonger_ 2 hours ago||
Maybe a fourth? https://shellsharks.com/indieweb#:~:text=Webrings
FergusArgyll 6 hours ago||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
BorisMelnik 19 hours ago||
this is great. Google has a vendetta against small personal blogs and is one of the original reasons why I fell in love with Google was because I got to discover all these indie publishers. as much as I love sub stack and Reddit these platforms along with all the garbage and slop is pushing us down.

I'm hoping one day the entire internet forks

proton_9 18 hours ago||
I’ve made a submission. I think as time passes there will be a niche for curated content thats free from AI slop.
hizihic 21 hours ago||
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