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For complement I would recommend Russian yandex, and vk.com (russian facebook). It is like snapshot of internet from 2018, before everything was hit by massive

For complement I would recommend Russian yandex, and vk.com (russian facebook). It is like snapshot of internet from 2018, before everything was hit by massive censorship. It has some very niche communities that are no longer on internet. For example Ancient Egypt history, western net is filled with alien theories, Russians are doing experimental archaeology. Also repair, electronics... Also Telegram is like second internet, nobody talks about!

mxmlnkn 3y ago
Telegram? How so? I'm still only using it for chatting. How would you even find anything on Telegram? The simple global search? I wouldn't like to join random shady groups found through there.
- mrweasel 3y ago
  Not sure either, but trying to follow the war in Ukraine has taught me both Ukrainians and Russians get a surprising amount of their news from various Telegrams channels.
- vGPU 3y ago
  The search sucks, but you can find quite a lot of interesting stuff if you have a jumping off point by checking out the groups they forward from. I’ve discovered a few great groups like that. Most of the stuff that comes up on search is spam or garbage though, agreed. I’ve found the majority of news groups I follow through twitter.
jo_beef 3y ago
> Also Telegram is like second internet, nobody talks about! Do you have any groups/channels that you can recommend?
- vGPU 3y ago
  For news? https://t.me/CIG_telegram https://t.me/CIG_telegram https://t.me/BellumActaNews https://t.me/BellumActaNews Both provide decent coverage of global happenings.
rwmj 3y ago
Yandex image search is actually useful, especially after Google destroyed their image search.
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moneywoes 3y ago
How do you find google Telegrams? For me most seem bot spam
flyinghamster 3y ago
The irony of someone recommending Russian platforms to evade "censorship" is astounding.
- throwaway290 3y ago
  My thought as well. As a Russian I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. TG is full of CSAM and others are censored worse than anything in the US.
vGPU 3y ago
Yandex hits me with captchas every search and every 2-3 pages on Firefox.

mxmlnkn 3y ago

Telegram? How so? I'm still only using it for chatting. How would you even find anything on Telegram? The simple global search? I wouldn't like to join random shady groups found through there.

mrweasel 3y ago
Not sure either, but trying to follow the war in Ukraine has taught me both Ukrainians and Russians get a surprising amount of their news from various Telegrams channels.
vGPU 3y ago
The search sucks, but you can find quite a lot of interesting stuff if you have a jumping off point by checking out the groups they forward from. I’ve discovered a few great groups like that. Most of the stuff that comes up on search is spam or garbage though, agreed. I’ve found the majority of news groups I follow through twitter.

jo_beef 3y ago

> Also Telegram is like second internet, nobody talks about! Do you have any groups/channels that you can recommend?

vGPU 3y ago
For news? https://t.me/CIG_telegram https://t.me/CIG_telegram https://t.me/BellumActaNews https://t.me/BellumActaNews Both provide decent coverage of global happenings.

rwmj 3y ago

Yandex image search is actually useful, especially after Google destroyed their image search.

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moneywoes 3y ago

How do you find google Telegrams? For me most seem bot spam

flyinghamster 3y ago

The irony of someone recommending Russian platforms to evade "censorship" is astounding.

throwaway290 3y ago
My thought as well. As a Russian I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. TG is full of CSAM and others are censored worse than anything in the US.

vGPU 3y ago

Yandex hits me with captchas every search and every 2-3 pages on Firefox.