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For me peak internet was mid 2000s StumbleUpon. Finding random sites at the click of a button lightly sorted by theme. One major difference was people weren’t c
by trescenzi 2y ago
For me peak internet was mid 2000s StumbleUpon. Finding random sites at the click of a button lightly sorted by theme. One major difference was people weren’t competing to get the most views. Of course monetized sites wanted more but today’s feeds create a sort of homogeneity I find less interesting because people are trying to appease an algorithm not viewers.
- susam 2y agoWhile this isn't at all like StumbleUpon, I've been enjoying a similar sense of discovery by adding https://indieblog.page/random https://indieblog.page/random as a bookmark to my web browser. Whenever I have some spare time and feel like surfing the web the old-fashioned way, I click this bookmark and get a random post from an independent blog. It's definitely a refreshing and much calmer experience compared to the black-box-algorithm-driven feeds of mainstream social media.
- mattlondon 2y agoTry https://wiby.me/surprise https://wiby.me/surprise A lot of the sites there are pre-2020 era but some weird and wonderful stuff!
- trescenzi 2y agoThis is awesome thank you!