I asked a related question here - the one about Boing Boing, Disinfo.com, Dangerous Minds: https://lemmy.world/post/1001839
I’d say somewhere around the late 00’s, things like iPhone, FB, Twitter, etc…started to make the web a lot more…homogenized.
It was fine for the old hands - we’ve seen this kind of thing before and more corporate rule was all too expected. We’ve been through a few migrations and paradigm shifts already. But we could still use our skills, go to the sites we wanted, curate RSS feeds, find the weird bits of the 'net that were still worthwhile tuning into and keeping the polished stuff at arms length.
But then things like StumbleUpon went away and for more and more people totally new to technology (but born into it) they think social media == “the internet” (Which is a depressing notion, having your entire idea of “technology” being something like BigCompany’s tablet/phone connected to BigCompany’s data gathering site to mediate your entire online experience.) Blogging became “uncool”. And of course, very few people, most especially younger people, seem to know about things like RSS.
I used to use StumbleUpon and then it dried up; has anyone used Mix? Or is there something better to use for discovering the weird and the wonderful?
How do you find the weird corners of the net these days? Where have all “The Others” gone to?
You must log in or register to comment.
Man I use to enjoy stumbleupon. Still have a few weird ones in my bookmark bar. A lemmy community would be great with a “random” button in the side bar.
There was a subreddit for cool/interesting/obscure websites. I forgot its name. Would be nice to have a sublemmy for it here.
If you remember, please let me know. Maybe someone will recreate it on Lemmy, or I can browse via safereddit…
I’ve been enjoying cloudhiker.net -it very nearly is what stumbledupon was back in the day. So much so, it used to be called stumbled.cc up until a couple weeks ago.
Anyway the premise is the same - you have a button a that takes you to random interesting websites.
Thank you! I’m checking it out right now. Pretty cool you can try it out without even signing up.
I’ve been having a great time on neocities, it’s like the Internet of yesteryear
Oh right, forgot all about this. Thanks. I’ll poke around…
Also - do you have any particular recommendations for sites on Neocities?
I tried mix for a few days and didn’t like it myself. But I totally get what you are saying and agree.
Upvote this thread… I want an answer!
As @[email protected] mentioned - cloudhiker.net seems quite nice.
If you find something please do a follow up post. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter…
Ha ha, a bit verbose, I guess. :) The fact that I posted twice did not help. lemmy.world was very very slow at that time and I waited and waited to see if the first one was going to show up and I did not see it. I guess I did not wait long enough…
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
