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terriblepersonyesterday at 7:52 PM1 replyview on HN

As a user and fan of kagi, the problem with kagi is that it reveals how badly degraded the web is.

The vast majority of original content is now in one or another social network or on discord. News articles are an exception, though the news has its own problems. Some wikis still exist and are actively maintained, of course, but not a ton. If it's a topic that's academically studied you might find information in papers, but those have poor web visibility and are better located with specialty tools. LLMs seem to be quite good at locating papers, though.


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WarmWashtoday at 1:18 AM

When you run a website where 80% of users are ad-blocking, and less than 0.5% donate, you quickly realize why these centralized websites (which turned apps to force ads) are the only survivors.

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