Hello World!

Announcing the new SURFMAN.co Website Directory. My name is David Thrift from Southeast Alabama, and this is my new official website.

I am a content creator and curator, amateur photographer, digital art creator, and craftsman.

This new project is not my first endeavor at building and publishing a website directory. It is simply an evolvement from prior projects.

Along with being a content curator, I am a digital content hoarder, especially in the case of hoarding massive numbers of website and social media links.

With this new Surf Man Website Directory, my goal is to provide listings of interest in both a pdf directory format, and online listings at this website.

I came up with the Surf Man name for this directory due to that I love surfing the internet and finding things to share.

I have turned off commenting and “likes” on this blog to avoid spammers. It’s a shame to have to do that, but spammers run rampant on the WordPress.com platform, primarily in the form of like spamming, plus owners of spam blogs trying to leave comments just to get a spam link placed on this website, and I refuse to allow this blog to get spammed.

I will put up a contact page with a contact form on it as soon as I can, and it will be the only means of communicating to me any comments about the content I post on this website.

As this website, and the upcoming pdf directory is considered a directory on it’s own, it will be made of several directories representing both web and social media listings.

Stay tuned for new content to come. This project is currently in it’s beginning phase.

Thanks for using SURFMAN.co!

Below is a look at some other content that may interest you (under construction at the moment).

Lemmy:

Lemmy is an open-source, self-hostable link aggregation and discussion platform, similar to Reddit or Hacker News, but operating on a decentralized network called the Fediverse. Users can subscribe to “communities” (similar to subreddits) on different servers, or “instances,” and interact with users and communities across the entire network using the ActivityPub protocol. This decentralized model offers alternatives to centralized social media by promoting user control, data ownership, and community autonomy.

I recently discovered Lemmy, and although I haven’t signed up for an account there yet, I have been checking in on some of the discussions that seemed interesting enough to follow, or that may offer some useful resources. Below is a list of some of the topics I check in on from time to time.

• Americans who live near state borders, how do you notice you’ve crossed the border? – [link]
• Book recommendations for a slow reader? – [link]
• Did you ever delete a google account? – [link]
• Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About – [link]
• Florida schools introducing armed drones that respond to shootings within seconds – [link]
• Get a quick overview of some of the new features in LibreOffice 25.8 – [link]
• Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain – [link]
• Hoarders say they feel stigmatized, face ‘everyday discrimination’ – [link]
• How can one consume media these days with any sort of privacy? – [link]
• How close can I get Firefox to my Vivaldi experience? – [link]
• How is Anna’s Archive being attacked? – [link]
• I think Odysee is a great Youtube alternative. – [link]
• Is there anywhere I can look to find all the companies/organizations that have information about me? Or at least all the places I’ve made an account? – [link]
• Just cataloged all my books and realized I am short 100 books from being a official library – [link]
• Making a font of my handwriting – [link]
• MEGATHREAD – [link]
• Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Signal – [link]
• Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google – [link]
• What are the three most visited sites in your web browser? – [link]
• What are you going to do when the internet starts asking for ID for everything? – [link]
• What do we think of Bluesky now? – [link]
• What is something silly you do for no other reason than its just normal for you? – [link]
• What would you suggest if you were helping design a healthier social network? – [link]

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