lieu — alexander cobleigh / cblgh.org
a purpose-built community search engine and how to use it
The Cloister Web: Reshaping the Political Maidan
The advent of the "Cloister Web," a conceptual space where individuals leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to cultivate novel ideas and commit them to a persistent public memory, heralds a profound shift in our intellectual and political landscapes.
Semble: Fast and Accurate Code Search for Agents
Fast and Accurate Code Search for Agents. Uses ~98% fewer tokens than grep+read
Introduction
A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.
Semble — Make sense of the web, together
A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.
(PDF) The Loop and Reasons to Break It: Investigating Infinite Scrolling Behaviour in Social Media Applications and Reasons to Stop
PDF | Today's social media (SM) platforms are toolkits consisting of features with different use cases, some strongly related to habitual and regretful... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
A Former Google Engineer Built a Search Engine for Finding Every Privacy Violation You Face Online
Former Google engineer Tim Libert is releasing a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”
atproto-aware concept search engine
a mockup of a webpage search engine that only indexes webpages that are referenced in atproto records. Surfaces related links based on social and community context.
Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse | The Walrus
As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
An 8 Year Algorithm Nemesis: Analyzing long string trends in a body of text with suffix trees
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
In some ways, atproto, bluesky, @semble.so, @sill.social, @standard.site and so on are building new indexes for the web. I really hope atproto succeeds and goes fully mainstream. Think of the amazing search engines that can be built on such rich index data. Maybe web3 can actually happen.
social hypertext
http gave us hypertext. atproto gives us social hypertext.
Social Media - Algorithmic Distortions and Polarization
Community Search Engines
Meta’s Legal Troubles Are Worse than You Think
old.reddit.com
Doomscrolling
Infinite scrolling
Taming the endless scroll? Short-form videos, digital routines and neurocognitive outcomes in youth
Trolling democracy: anonymity doesn’t cause conflicts, bad site design does
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet
HTTP gave us hypertext, atproto gives us "social hypertext"
Building on some of @chrisshank.com's work, what if we had browsers that were atproto-native? orange link = in your PDS green link = in the…
The Age of PageRank is Over
Informatics of the Oppressed
Peer Knowledge Assisted Search Using Community Search Logs
A survey of community search over big graphs
Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
Curated vs open search (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble
