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

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I used to have an easier time finding truly weird material to read on the web. Things like:

subgenius.com timecube.2enp.com

Things on the fringes of sanity, or sometimes far over the line.

Any resources for finding material that is way out there, but manages to steer clear of hateful/racist/bigoted patterns of thought?

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

#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 hole.

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

#8

What about a search engine? https://search.marginalia.nu/

Second this. You can find all kinds of interesting writing and documents with this search engine, I actually came here to say this.

There's also places on the web that are not right off the highway so to speak, you can find them by delving into smaller communities like forums, fediverse is a good place to find stuff like that. weboasis.app has links to a ton of small back road link aggregators and forums. The real internet exists, it's just google and Facebook aren't going to show it to you.

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

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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…

This was indeed a fun rabbit hole, thanks for sharing. I love learning details of these secret technologies, even if it's all bullshit. There was another good rabbit hole I went down recently from a reply I got to a comment, may be of some interest to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148218#32148898
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