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I concur! Explore the big, bold world outside the internet. Or, on the internet, stop spending your valuable time on bottom-feeder content like medium articles

I concur! Explore the big, bold world outside the internet. Or, on the internet, stop spending your valuable time on bottom-feeder content like medium articles, facebook, twitter/bluesky, rant blogs, news websites etc.

sevenzero 6mo ago
>bottom-feeder content So 99% of posts on Hackernews, got it.
- bpavuk 6mo ago
  99%? if you count all submitted posts, then yeah, maybe even 99.5%, but the frontpage is maybe 90%
dgellow 6mo ago
Do you have interesting urls to recommend?
- the__alchemist 6mo ago
  Good question. No, unless we have similar interests and hobbies. Specialized topics and fields (I observe anecdotally) tend to be less vulnerable to the optimization this article laments!
Melatonic 6mo ago
Kagi Small Web !!
- uncircle 6mo ago
  It’s all mostly American tech blogs. I mean, it’s a nice initiative, but it’s less diverse than Hacker News.
  - bhrlady 6mo ago
    (Disclosure: I work at Kagi) Thanks for checking it out. There's currently over 30K blogs in the feed and we try to diversify it as much as possible. We welcome anyone to contribute more blogs, video channels and comics here: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#%EF%B8%8F-guidelines-for-site-inclusion-to-the-list-%EF%B8%8F https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#%EF%B8%8F-guidelines-...
moffkalast 6mo ago
The big, bold world outside the internet is arguably far more locked down, enshittified and regulated than the online world. I mean look at cities, removing parks, benches, trying to make it impossible to even stand without paying for existing. The countryside is all bought up, every inch of grass owned and people itching to tell you to get the fuck off their property. Can't do anything anywhere anymore. You'd have to go somewhere incredibly remote to find any boldness left, like international waters or the Australian outback. The civilized world is just bureaucracy with extra steps.
- the__alchemist 6mo ago
  This is a good point, and is depressing on its own...
- TFNA 6mo ago
  > The countryside is all bought up, every inch of grass owned and people itching to tell you to get the fuck off their property. You’re missing out if you think that. People come from all over the world to hike, bikepack, or van-dwell American wilderness. Since Covid there has been a big boom in ”weekender” routes that Americans can do in their own neck of the woods. And if there’s so much reward in the USA, think about what rewards await in other countries that have even less of a culture of territorialness and privatization.
  - ghaff 6mo ago
    I do think there’s been some power law concentration since Covid and you can blame Instagram or whatever but still seems like a real phenomenon in my personal experience.

sevenzero 6mo ago

>bottom-feeder content So 99% of posts on Hackernews, got it.

bpavuk 6mo ago
99%? if you count all submitted posts, then yeah, maybe even 99.5%, but the frontpage is maybe 90%

dgellow 6mo ago

Do you have interesting urls to recommend?

the__alchemist 6mo ago
Good question. No, unless we have similar interests and hobbies. Specialized topics and fields (I observe anecdotally) tend to be less vulnerable to the optimization this article laments!

Melatonic 6mo ago

Kagi Small Web !!

uncircle 6mo ago
It’s all mostly American tech blogs. I mean, it’s a nice initiative, but it’s less diverse than Hacker News.
- bhrlady 6mo ago
  (Disclosure: I work at Kagi) Thanks for checking it out. There's currently over 30K blogs in the feed and we try to diversify it as much as possible. We welcome anyone to contribute more blogs, video channels and comics here: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#%EF%B8%8F-guidelines-for-site-inclusion-to-the-list-%EF%B8%8F https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#%EF%B8%8F-guidelines-...

moffkalast 6mo ago

The big, bold world outside the internet is arguably far more locked down, enshittified and regulated than the online world. I mean look at cities, removing parks, benches, trying to make it impossible to even stand without paying for existing. The countryside is all bought up, every inch of grass owned and people itching to tell you to get the fuck off their property. Can't do anything anywhere anymore. You'd have to go somewhere incredibly remote to find any boldness left, like international waters or the Australian outback. The civilized world is just bureaucracy with extra steps.

the__alchemist 6mo ago
This is a good point, and is depressing on its own...
TFNA 6mo ago
> The countryside is all bought up, every inch of grass owned and people itching to tell you to get the fuck off their property. You’re missing out if you think that. People come from all over the world to hike, bikepack, or van-dwell American wilderness. Since Covid there has been a big boom in ”weekender” routes that Americans can do in their own neck of the woods. And if there’s so much reward in the USA, think about what rewards await in other countries that have even less of a culture of territorialness and privatization.
- ghaff 6mo ago
  I do think there’s been some power law concentration since Covid and you can blame Instagram or whatever but still seems like a real phenomenon in my personal experience.