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Imustaskforhelpyesterday at 1:37 PM1 replyview on HN

archive.org + website + linkhut search + username? (Endorsements can work by having the link of ln.ht profile itself being part of another user's Linkhut profile)

For example: Suppose you went to fluxer.gg (Open source Discord alternative that I found cool)

You searched it upon ln.ht: https://ln.ht/?query=fluxer.gg

You can then find the username who uploaded it there (in this case, its me): https://ln.ht/~imafh

You can then for example, find another thing that I uploaded there about a song/musician that I found really cool :-

Fuji Gateway - Tuesdays, Am I Right? (Official Lyric Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijjb_0RW28c

You can even endorse me by having my username linkhut be within your linkhut profile for example and I think I am seeing some social aspect of it in the frontpage of linkhut as well although I don't particular appreciate that right now.

Linkhut also is open source/have public API's

I found Linkhut only yesterday fwiw but its really cool and want to vouch for it. So does this work for the use case that you are mentioning?

Plus another point about Linkhut which I have talked in another comment is the note functionality. It allows me to reason (why?) I liked a particular website of say any project or any person and allows me to add words to it as well. This might be the feature I like the most because it allows me to use words to sort of actually have word-of-mouth for any cool things that we find on internet.

And this way you can also find reasonings for other websites that a person may've vouched for in a way too. I found this whole idea really elegant.

Edit: Oh btw there is also the concept of tags. So suppose you wanted more discord alternative. You could search #discord and it can for example lead you to stoat, matrix etc. from other people too.

I am not sure if there is already an extension that does it but an extension could be made to really simplify some aspects of it. I definitely feel this and there is some maybe small community on linkhut so you're not starting from scratch and also the merits of linkhut in general seem to me be good enough for average person to use.

I am curious to hear your thoughts on this.


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robinsonb5yesterday at 10:41 PM

It sounds really good - though obviously less automated than what I had in mind. What's needed is something with less friction - which could be achieved using a browser extension - but also needs something to prevent shilling and other forms of abuse. (Or, more to the point, a method by which any user who shills can be easily canned by other users.)