Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by manuelmoreale » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 5:41 AM UTC

Few ways, in no particular order:

- are.na seems to attract people who have odd interests and it’s full of quirky websites

- webrings are still a thing and there’s a bunch out there worth checking out

- directories like https://512kb.club/ are usually full of interesting sites

- by following links on blogs and sites you find interesting

- some cool forums are still out there (https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php)

Shameless plug but I am currently curating https://theforest.link precisely because of the issue you’re describing.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by SllX » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 5:50 AM UTC

All you had to do was ask.

Here’s one I found recently: http://www.betainfoguide.net/

The social tech of 2007 in the web tech of 1997 for the tape tech of 1977. I swear if browsers still supported the blink and marquee tags there would be some of that on display here.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by random123973 » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 5:50 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by yaddaor » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 5:54 AM UTC

narrator wrote: post #6

Search for strange and controversial topics on http://yandex.com . The results are totally different from the mainstream search engines which try hard to prevent fun "misinformation" by always sending you to the sites that never say anything strange. For example, try "solar warden" (not the video game or the novel which is what the mainstream sites want to tell you about) on Yandex if you want to go down a fun rabbit…

I like that the mAiNStrEaM SIteS actually provide relevant results instead of placing fringe, absurd conspiracy theories first. Seems in line with Russian destabilisation campaigns though so maybe that on purpose?

And providing rt.com's propaganda as #2 on "Ukraine invasion"? Totally not suspicious.

OP asked for "manages to steer clear of hateful/racist/bigoted patterns of thought" though.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by senectus1 » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 6:35 AM UTC

oh this posting is not good for my productivity...

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by bhedgeoser » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 6:39 AM UTC

Go to reddit.com

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by memalign » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 6:41 AM UTC

Gossip’s Web is one of my favorite sources:

https://gossipsweb.net/

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by jhoelzel » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 6:57 AM UTC

Mostly my social bubble and of course reddit! I even read hackernews through reddit, thanks to the sub forum. Otherwise there is the good old google bang for site:reddit.com for anything of interest =)

I can safely reccomend the appollo app for your phone.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by wernsey » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 7:00 AM UTC

Always read the comments on HN.

This is the way.

Re: Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web?

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Post by Markoff » Mon, Sep 12, 2022, 7:07 AM UTC

random123973 wrote: post #23

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TIL they have Discord

their megathread is way better than r/piracy

any list which doesn't include Pahe, PSA and Knaben is for me not worth reading

edit:

Greetings everyone, as you may know our discord server was nuked weeks ago along with several others, and so we have made the decision to move to revolt entirely.

You can get started by:

Registering[1] an account at https://divolt.xyz and logging in Join the server: https://fmhy.divolt.xyz Some points to note: 1 - this is an entirely self-hosted instance, so you must register a new one even if you already have one on the official instance.