 Web surfing needs a comeback! Most of us keep visiting the same old sites, owned by the same old companies. And our reward? The same old monotony again and again. Instead, how about rediscovering the wonders of the web, a place for new ideas and self-expression? 24 comments
  @atomicpoet , I've half the internet in my Bookmarks, a quarter of a century surfing leaves its traces @atomicpoet I recommend a side journey to the web's earliest origins: #Gopherspace. Not joking, it informs where we are today. And there's an active community of retro-gopher servers. Exploring is fun. There's virtually no corporate presence. And the slight educational effort necessary to get on #Gopher is empowering. @atomicpoet @atomicpoet In its day, #Stumbleupon did this so well, both offering new sites and enabling self-expression. It is much missed. @atomicpoet Yeah I got a whole list of odd sites I used to visit weekly hardly ever do now .Here's one of them https://englishrussia.com/  @atomicpoet yes, web surfing is something we need to bring back - across the web. Tumblr was meant to help with this. The truth is though, that any platform run by a business wants you to stay within their walls. We need to revive personal websites. Not blogs. not every personal website needs a blog. Just a place someone can call their own - and make whatever they want. the easier we can make it for people to manage their site, and rely upon it, the more people will use it    @atomicpoet I think the Mastodon peoples and their valuable references and links is my substitute. Unknown, potentially compromised websites are scary.  @atomicpoet Oh how I miss the old StumbleUpon. I lost hours there and met great people too. It's inheritor, Mix, never hit the same mark. #WebSurfing #StumbleUpon, #OldInternet  @atomicpoet There needs to be a corporate-free or "normal people" search engine or something  @atomicpoet Spatula City (OG home of The Really Big Red Buttton That Doesn't Do Anything) still exists, so what more could you ask?   @atomicpoet It really is time to modernize #Webrings. They are just curated lists of personal websites around a topic of some kind. Itโs like joining a club, and the public can just randomly go from one site in the group to another. @atomicpoet I just had a go at this. Man, there are a lot of naked ladies out there. @atomicpoet Isn't that a fact. Mastodon and DuckDuckGo are my ways of finding new stuff. With Mastodon being the most frequent: blogs that help me discover new links and new sources that help me discover new links and sources... You get the idea. ๐ @atomicpoet i quite enjoyed #stumbleupon https://www.stumbleupon.com/ back in the day. Maybe itโs time to check it out, again. |
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@atomicpoet Are there search engines that deliberately exclude the siloed web?