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> Hardly anyone “surfs” the Web anymore.
Doesn't the whole click-bait "industry" specifically because people are surfing?
What's more, even on social media, things like "Weird Facebook" come into existence. Huge groups form with no clear purpose other than seemingly to be exactly the kind of internet "arcades" that the article is describing.
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Here's a collection of jumping-off points to curious communities I've spent many a happy hour exploring: http://ribbonfarm.com https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk/ http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/ http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ https://meaningness.com/ http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/ Enjoy :)
We need a DARE program to warn unsuspecting children about people like you ;) LessWrong is a rabbit hole you'll never find your way out of. Oh it starts off harmless. "I'll just read a couple", you say. But a year later you're mainlining SSC and pissing off all your friends talking about "virtue signaling". And then a year after that you're living in Berkeley, dating five people, and giving a third of your income to…
Edit: Arguably, this is a better outcome than monogamy in a highly gender-skewed community (e.g. 1 in 2 het men dateless).
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Please post them on a pastebin. The alt-right tumblr and conspiracy reddit sound amazing
Yeah, who is this seemingly normal guy? I want to know!
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I mostly find the odd places when searching on and for discussions of old stomping grounds. That usually leads me down a long path of links. Sometimes I discover by joining oddly named and sparsely visited IRC rooms. Occasionally great sites are posted to 4chan. A recent discovery was made when looking for recent references to Temple Of The Screaming Electron. This search led me to two weird corners (potentially NSFW…
Deep forum links on weird topics is my goto, but IRC may be something I should get back into. I kinda miss the web being made of forums, I feel like that's a tradition that's less healthy than it was. Facebook groups or slack channel or Stack Exchange just don't do it for me the same way
What about this?
http://miketysontattoos.blogspot.ca/2011/06/quotient-rule-di...
Not quite a forum link, but I really couldn't figure out what the purpose of that site was. Some sort of spam/seo seeding operation? Where does the source material come from.
I thought this is what they did on Geocities. But don't people still do that on Tumblr?
Yes and no. Tumblr is a lot more curated. The hashtag and featured list makes aimlessly strolling obsolete.
But most personal blogs don't care about that, they tag their posts with custom, made-up categories or use the tag field as additional meta-commentary. There's a much-reblogged Tumblr post chain [1] that talks about this; ironically the only way I was able to find the post again is because one of the commenters tagged it with topical tags.
So Tumblr is an amalgam of discoverable posts, long chains, and many posts that are completely untagged. If the blog's author has disabled the built-in integration Tumblr has with making search engines aware of posts, a lot of this content can only be found by going directly to the source through a friend-of-a-friend.
[1] (shortened due to NSFW words in url, in deference to those at work) http://bit.ly/2cuwzE0
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We need a DARE program to warn unsuspecting children about people like you ;) LessWrong is a rabbit hole you'll never find your way out of. Oh it starts off harmless. "I'll just read a couple", you say. But a year later you're mainlining SSC and pissing off all your friends talking about "virtue signaling". And then a year after that you're living in Berkeley, dating five people, and giving a third of your income to…
Well, dating five people if you're (mostly hetero) female; dating one or two people, who are each dating five people, if you're (mostly hetero) male. Edit: Arguably, this is a better outcome than monogamy in a highly gender-skewed community (e.g. 1 in 2 het men dateless).
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I've started collecting my weirdest links, though I'm not sure what to do with them yet. Hundreds of watercolors featuring Nazi war criminal Reynard Heidrich transforming into a female bird, a studio producing sexy anthropomorphized American warships that's started shifting towards Trump propaganda, a network of alt-right teenage girls' tumblrs, mostly based out of Nebraska, subreddits for conspiracy theorists focusi…
Please post them on a pastebin. The alt-right tumblr and conspiracy reddit sound amazing
There's being open minded. And there's having your brain spilling out all over the pavement.
As with many circuses and freakshows, a very small exposure goes a long way. The stunning lack of critical thinking ability, and/or self-parodying circlejerk nature, get old quickly. Trying to decide which of those two it is might occupy you for a while.
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I've started collecting my weirdest links, though I'm not sure what to do with them yet. Hundreds of watercolors featuring Nazi war criminal Reynard Heidrich transforming into a female bird, a studio producing sexy anthropomorphized American warships that's started shifting towards Trump propaganda, a network of alt-right teenage girls' tumblrs, mostly based out of Nebraska, subreddits for conspiracy theorists focusi…
Please post them on a pastebin. The alt-right tumblr and conspiracy reddit sound amazing