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There are still pockets of the old web out there. As ever, they're promoted more through personal recommendations and click-through discovery. Mastodon has it
by focusedone 3y ago
There are still pockets of the old web out there. As ever, they're promoted more through personal recommendations and click-through discovery.
Mastodon has it, COM in SDF has it. Heck, LambdaMOO still exists.
It takes effort to find that stuff, but it's so much more fun than doom scrolling, knowing your attention is being purchased and you're working for <social company>'s profit.
I've been collecting 'small web' blogs in a feed and it's a really pleasant way to do interneting. Most folks in that world really enjoy getting an email from a reader and will actually strike up a conversation. That long distance human interaction is still unique and just as fun as it was in the 00s.
- stianlaa 3y agoWould it be possible to see this list of 'small web' blogs? As you write the pockets of the old web are largely discovered through personal recommendations.
- Given_47 3y agoNot parent, but Marginalia's list[0] of blogs is a great aggregation. I've also stumbled upon some webrings through some of the blogs (have them open somewhere among my 3000 open tabs haha). [0]: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/PublicData/blob/master/sets/blogs.txt https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/PublicData/blob/master/s...
- stianlaa 3y agoThat's quite an expansive list, I'll have a good look. Thank you!
- dannyphantom 3y agoI really like 'Old Hollywood' (especially Warner Bros) and I actually find tons and tons of niche little pockets of the web by using Yandex. Even with search operators Google/Bing just...doesn't make it easy to find the little blogs (that are still publishing!) that cite niche little fan-hosted websites with literal treasure troves of pictures, media, newspaper scans. I might be thinking the 'old-web' in a different sense than others here - but you find a lot just by poking around websites you find elsewhere and see where it takes you. Sites like neocities is really good for it but I'll just list some below. https://tilde.town/users.html https://tilde.town/users.html - kinda like neocities with tons of little self-made project sites that are easy to open 1 million tabs from https://512kb.club/ https://512kb.club/ - little sites, often link to other niche sites https://1mb.club/ https://1mb.club/ - same as above, just different size http://oh-hi.info/ http://oh-hi.info/ - just a website for street photography of humans https://www.pointlesssites.com/ https://www.pointlesssites.com/ - just remembered this; it was something i used to check out every few weeks as a kid and it led me to being a fan of https://www.newrafael.com/websites/ https://www.newrafael.com/websites/ who makes some fun stuff reminiscent of what is my age groups 'old web' from around 2008-onward lol http://www.explodingdog.com/ http://www.explodingdog.com/ - just a cute little site of someone who drew submissions people sent in https://wiby.me/surprise/ https://wiby.me/surprise/ - wiby is a cool project that was posted about here around the time i joined; i added it to my bookmarks bar so it can just take me to a random site every now and then - it's also a search engine so you can use it to just find other cool sites instead of their surprise feature https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/
- stianlaa 3y agoExcellent, thank you. I really enjoy these types of lists and will spend some time looking through them all. [Edit] Huh, I'm surprised to find lichess.org in the <512 kb club!
- mdekkers 3y agoKagi has a “Small Web” lens to help surface relevant search results