There’s probably a different word for it, but linkhole like rabbithole.

You went to this one site, and it mentioned some other site, and they kept your interest and kept linking on to others and you’ve surfaced just long enough to share here.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Nibling, that’s what we used to call “surfing the web”. Google all-but killed it with their ranking algo that heavily disincentivizes outgoing links, but pre-google, which was also pre-Web2.0 (what we now call “social media”, it was a dominant way to spend time online; that, and the old-school fora.