Sums up my experience growing up
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Any recommendations?
I agree that the web is usable and pretty nice using RSS to follow blogs. I also love blogs with a comment section with the same community of people discussing the topic.
What I miss somewhat are dedicated web forums that are active. Something like Head-fi and Steve Hoffman's forum for music.
I wish for forums like that for other topics, as well.
https://ourfavoritevoid.club/directory is a webring for smolweb peeps that like to blog (or like black cats, or both)! Check out some of the folx there! We've also an old-school phpbb forum, but unfortunately would probably not qualify for your definition of "active."
https://32bit.cafe is just fantastic, too. Lots of tutorials and smallweb denizens to connect with.
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Sums up my experience growing up
@ilovecomputers - When Yahoo bought Geocities for the sole purpose of shutting it down, that's when I knew it was over.
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@ilovecomputers
But the library of Alexandria still exists.
And social media is toxic whether it's algorithmic or not (source: fedi). -
@mutkitta Look up:
https://melonland.net/ and its forums - plus all the "handy links" on the page
https://www.naiveweekly.com/ (yes I know it's based on Substack)
Good Internet
A magazine for the non-corporate and independent web, use of code as an art medium, and web development enthusiasm of hobbyists and professionals alike.
Good Internet (goodinternetmagazine.com)
Browse some webrings: https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm
@sarajw
Adding to this: https://ooh.directory/
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Any recommendations?
I agree that the web is usable and pretty nice using RSS to follow blogs. I also love blogs with a comment section with the same community of people discussing the topic.
What I miss somewhat are dedicated web forums that are active. Something like Head-fi and Steve Hoffman's forum for music.
I wish for forums like that for other topics, as well.
@mutkitta @triptych @ilovecomputers Here’s a ton of resources for discovering indieweb stuff out there on the web - https://shellsharks.com/indieweb. Happy surfing!
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@ilovecomputers Come to Project Gemini, we have ASCII art
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@ilovecomputers And the reason for all of this is "Monetization".
Things used to be different because people put stuff on the internet because they wanted other people to see it, not to sell it.
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@mutkitta Look up:
https://melonland.net/ and its forums - plus all the "handy links" on the page
https://www.naiveweekly.com/ (yes I know it's based on Substack)
Good Internet
A magazine for the non-corporate and independent web, use of code as an art medium, and web development enthusiasm of hobbyists and professionals alike.
Good Internet (goodinternetmagazine.com)
Browse some webrings: https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm
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Sums up my experience growing up
People using their real names and faces
Governments wanting to control it
Corporations flooding itJust a few things from the top of my head that made it all go to shit
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Sums up my experience growing up
@ilovecomputers I feel this in every fiber of my being. I weep for every generation that has come after me that they will never know the peace of just getting to be without being tracked, monetized and fed into a perpetual rage machine.
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Sums up my experience growing up
Andrew Wooldridge ⛰️ (@triptych@social.lol)
@ilovecomputers@xoxo.zone I feel like the core of what we loved about the internet is there - it's hiding in chat rooms, little closed member forums, hand crafted websites. It's not gone, just harder to see, but if you dig through the muck, you find yourself in a small meadow with a few other folks who might share with you something good.
social.lol (social.lol)
To be less of a downer, I want to pin this reply thread on this post as it contains links to indie websites and communities that continue to live on. It’s not just nostalgia; even amongst the next generation, there’s growing enthusiasm for slow tech.
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@ilovecomputers fr. that said - look up web revival
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@ilovecomputers fr. that said - look up web revival
@hell and yesterweb
and indie web
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@hell and yesterweb
and indie web
and slow web@ilovecomputers oooooooo
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@mutkitta @triptych @ilovecomputers Here’s a ton of resources for discovering indieweb stuff out there on the web - https://shellsharks.com/indieweb. Happy surfing!
@shellsharks @mutkitta @triptych @ilovecomputers hum, cool and thanks
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Sums up my experience growing up
@ilovecomputers This is the experience of the new "Lost Generation".
What's more crazy is knowing how deeply the media we consume shapes and informs us, and thinking about what teens and 20s today are growing up with. X_X
(I guess to be fair... What all of us are continuing to grow up with... But yeah, earlier formative experiences, chances to connect with people who expand your horizon, etc... dang)
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@mutkitta @triptych @ilovecomputers Not sure whether it's possible, but what if we could use our Mastodon accounts for forums?
@hackillu @triptych @ilovecomputers I think some people are working on using the fediverse for "universal" comments for podcasts. That's one of the podcasting 2.0 features I'm looking forwards to. If it ever gets implemented
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@hackillu There are fediverse versions of forum-like interfaces that look a little like reddit, or discord, or other things. They can interoperate with your mastodon accounts - you may have to set up new accounts to use them, but the interoperability is still there AFAIK. I haven't (yet) tried them out.
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