The Web is a Dead End
DMOZ died 8 years ago (offline, not too long after becoming inactive or stale) and today's Web is being flooded by low-quality slop and spam. It's probably too large to curate by people. Search engines drown in this ocean of garbage. Many people have noticed this.
In Asia, where most humans live, more than 3 in 4 Web users are on Google Chrome (it's not because Chrome is good; usually it's because particular sites won't work properly with anything else!) and worldwide Chrome has just attained another record high at almost 70%. Despite antitrust cases it seems like the Web and Chrome gradually become the same thing. Put another way, the Web is becoming "some thing" that's fed into an application called "Chrome" and little else. Chrome isn't about open standards but about attestation (proprietary software), DRM (also proprietary software), and various other nasty things for the "content industry" - the same industry that Google plunders under the guise of "Gemini" (it chose this name for its slop engine). Apropos Gemini:
The openwashing aside, fossforce.com should cover gemini:// the protocol, not Google's slop that uses the same name. The protocol is "foss", Google's slop is an attack on "foss".
Another question arises, why the heck is fossforce.com messing about with slop in the first place? What is there to be gained by using proprietary LLMs? "Shitposting"?
Anyway, the Web is going in a terrible direction ad Google plays a role in it. We need to adopt alternatives. We need to promote them too. Google is now 'googlebombing' the term "Gemini"; we don't think it's a coincidence. It used to be known as "Bard". █