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Pluralistic

pluralistic.net · a site they built themselves

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Pluralistic publishes writing about fantasy & SF and technology at pluralistic.net, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 18 other writers in the index.

10 dated posts since 202618 writers vouch

Posts per year

102026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 0

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 0, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured1 section found
Front page
102 KB, 11 scripts, 12 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 5 other sites, 2 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

doctorow23cory29writin3epistemic5permanence10appearance265ordinariness2delectate1upcoming383colophon36readin5armsrace1guillotine3jenkin36

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches13 writers in the index

13 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

and 1 more.

Their neighbourhood

Cory Doctorow's crhow to save the woOpen IndieTom Brandisdebris.gardenBlogrollAnthony Avinajsrn - a real humaClaire L. EvansCory Doctorow's cr7 sites outside the indexPluralistic
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Cory Doctorow's craphound.com. Kept on the same blogrolls: starbreaker.org (3 of the same writers link to both), Drew DeVault's blog (3 of the same writers link to both), Julia Evans (3 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: still publishing · no optimization at all · vouched by 18 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 46,020 in the top million domains.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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