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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?

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[-] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Arcidias@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm checking it out right now. Pretty cool you can try it out without even signing up.

[-] andarwaid@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

There was a subreddit for cool/interesting/obscure websites. I forgot its name. Would be nice to have a sublemmy for it here.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If you remember, please let me know. Maybe someone will recreate it on Lemmy, or I can browse via safereddit...

[-] Kwason@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've been having a great time on neocities, it's like the Internet of yesteryear

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh right, forgot all about this. Thanks. I'll poke around...

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Also - do you have any particular recommendations for sites on Neocities?

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I tried mix for a few days and didn’t like it myself. But I totally get what you are saying and agree.

[-] Kwason@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've been having a great time on neocities, it's like the Internet of yesteryear

[-] nadram@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Upvote this thread... I want an answer!

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As @Arcidias@lemmy.world mentioned - cloudhiker.net seems quite nice.

[-] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you find something please do a follow up post. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter....

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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...

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