Litter Layer
Discover hidden worlds within the world wide web.
11 followers
Discover hidden worlds within the world wide web.
11 followers
The "litter layer" in a forest is the part under the decaying leaves where fungi and all kinds of hidden life exists. One creature that dwells there is the Patu Digua, a small spider. We use Patu to crawl the web for indie/small sites. Users add bookmarks which contributes to the index. Nodes contribute from their own server.
This is the 2nd launch from Litter Layer. View more
Litter Layer
Launching today
Litter Layer started out as search only. Now there is a federated portion and social bookmarking with commenting. Users can even customize a public bookmarks page with CSS.
Privacy and 100% control over your account is a priority.
Setting up a node is easy and works even with cheap shared hosting, and comes with a search widget for your site.
Bookmark search results, or add any bookmarks you want and they'll be added to the search engine.
Create a fun avatar (cartoon or shapes).
Free
Launch Team
How do you keep the index from getting spammed with junk bookmarks, and is there any moderation layer or trust system in place for what nodes contribute?
@sevda0irx What’s a junk bookmark? As long as it’s a working webpage it’s kept in the index. If it’s a broken webpage it’s either removed immediately or eventually. Nodes are manually reviewed and approved first.
Curious how you handle duplicates when lots of users bookmark the same niche indie sites, and whether there's any ranking signal beyond raw bookmark count so the results don't feel like a popularity contest.
@aleynafranko If the webpage already exists in the search index it won’t be added to the search index again. Bookmark count isn’t used; the search rankings aren’t based on any sort of popularity. Although, that’s actually not a bad idea as an extra feature. Do a regular search, or, search by popularity/trending. I might add that in the future.
been looking for something like this for ages. the bookmarks feel familiar and the patu spider angle is delightfully weird. excited to see the index grow.