The site would have a very Google-esque feel. The listings would look similar.

That’s the plan. Moderators for categories.

Pretty much.

It also doesn’t catalog individual pages. It lists domains and their descriptions.

That’s because I don’t want that.

I remember, as a kid, wandering the local library. Looking at all the books. Seeing the call numbers and author names. Exploring the shelves, as they transitioned from topic to topic to topic.

My idea is to treat the Internet as a giant library, with domains being books on a shelf, and allowing my users to start at a random location, and then peruse the different listings as they transition from slight variations of the main topic.

With all due respect, you don’t have the vision, man. To start looking at cultural anthropology, then have a link to a biological anthropology blog 3 lines down? That’s the goal. It’s not about a narrowed search. It’s about cataloging something, so people can go looking for it. To enjoy the hunt.

Thank you 🙏️

You’re right about knowing your audience. That’s when I do my best work.

You literally have to know what thought is going to pop into their heads before they do. Then, you kind of steer the conversation like a tour guide in a car. Your goal isn’t to be right, but to give them the best experience. And, the best experience is having a reason to live in a world without their fantasy. For most people, fantasy is the only thing they have left – especially in this world. And crushing that without giving them something equally sustainable (for their mental state) makes one an asshole. It isn’t that you can’t convince a lot of people. It’s that you have to crush them to do it sometimes.

Great point on knowing when to stop as well.

I forced Ben Shapiro to change his views on gender with well-thought-out counterpoints.

He was literally saying sex and gender were the same. After a spelled out comment on why they weren’t, he changed his tune on the next show.

The left.

And I hate to say that.

That sounds about right.

People who feel they have no value, other than their looks, get aggressive when the thing they spent so long working on doesn’t pay off.

I hate not knowing what’s going on with the data under the hood.

I’m considering 501c.

They issue updates constantly. And nobody will want to use a different DDS than their local library.

There are literally open DNS providers who run their own networks. Good luck.

I wrote my own key-value database (with drive and memory storage), so I didn’t have to use SQL.

https://github.com/ki4jgt/PPD/

Just got bored one night and built a blog off of it.

Edit: I’m literally tempted to write an API server around this, add sharding, and call it a night.

You could say that.

I absolutely detest SQL. I will probably go to my deathbed having never typed a line of SQL in my life. I don’t know why I hate it as much as I do, but I refuse to learn it – my brain won’t let me.

I’ve programmed in C, C++, Python, BASIC, JavaScript, Assembly, etc. I wrote CGIs for Apache in all these languages, so I didn’t have to touch PHP. Every time I get near SQL or PHP, I start wanting to pull my hair out.

When did Mongo go proprietary?

Edit: I’m actually wanting to make my entire project open source. MongoDB’s current license, requiring all infrastructure to be open, might actually be for me.

Can I ask why? Are there errors in the append log? Does it forget things?

Not questioning your character. Just curious what your personal experiences were.

Wikipedia says their starting days were a garage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google), but point taken.

I’m currently using MongoDB.

Everybody’s gotta start somewhere. Google started in a garage.