Announcing the new D98.co website. 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.

My purpose for starting and maintaining this website is to hoard links by creating a website and social media directory, personal blog, and share my creativity. I also hope to start a new zine here, and publish some ebooks at some point.

How I came up with the url D98.co is simple. D stands for my name, David, and 98 stands for 1998, which was the first year I got on the internet. I discovered the url was available, and I bought it. It is not the first url I’ve owned, but is the shortest one.

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, 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.

I am moving content over to this website from my old one. So check back soon to see what is new.

Thanks for using D98.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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