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The real web is almost secret

I want to share this fantastic post by Benjamin Hollon, "A Secret Web" about how the web works, or was supposed to work originally, and the importance of link discovery for the IndieWeb, a topic I have covered before.

To have any hope of meaningfully browsing the web, we need systems in place that artificially limit that scope—curation technologies. Today, the web curation process is almost entirely through search engines and social media algorithms, commercial automated systems to narrow our focus on the web to the specific things we know we want.

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