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

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Post by narrator »

yaddaor wrote: post #24
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.

How is the idea that the u.s government has a secret space program that is flying around the universe under our noses with godlike technology hateful/racist/bigoted?

Is it now racist/hateful/bigoted to believe in alien technology conspiracies just because anything that's not official government information can be automatically labeled as such? I think the whole solar warden thing and the universe of b.s around it is kind of fun in a timecube kind of way and that attitude that anything that contradicts the government is racist/hateful/bigoted has killed a lot of the fun of the internet.

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

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Post by verisimi »

yaddaor wrote: post #24
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.

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

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Post by pdinny »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #21

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 )…

I've found some really interesting reading on are.na. Something that I particularly enjoy about that mode of discovery is that it is more about curation and discovery. The smallness of the community (it feels small at any rate) means that there doesn't seem to be a big incentive to degrade the overall quality by using SEO-like tactics.

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

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Post by zephyrfalcon »

SllX wrote: post #22

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.

I don't know about blink, but there is a marquee tag on the front page and it works as expected in Edge.

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

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Post by braingenious »

Turn on posts from banned users on this site. I’ve seen some genuinely deranged stuff on here. One time a poster got into a really heated debate about censorship and ended up posting links to a detailed guide on how to commit suicide for some reason!

It wasn’t particularly fun but it was genuinely an odd thing to come across on today’s internet.

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

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Post by tonto »

braingenious wrote: post #36

Turn on posts from banned users on this site. I’ve seen some genuinely deranged stuff on here. One time a poster got into a really heated debate about censorship and ended up posting links to a detailed guide on how to commit suicide for some reason! It wasn’t particularly fun but it was genuinely an odd thing to come across on today’s internet.

may have been related to Russia blocking GitHub in their country for hosting suicide pages https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/to-ge...

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

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Post by braingenious »

tonto wrote: post #37
braingenious wrote: post #36

Turn on posts from banned users on this site. I’ve seen some genuinely deranged stuff on here. One time a poster got into a really heated debate about censorship and ended up posting links to a detailed guide on how to commit suicide for some reason! It wasn’t particularly fun but it was genuinely an odd thing to come across on today’s internet.

may have been related to Russia blocking GitHub in their country for hosting suicide pages https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/to-ge...

It was weirder than that. I can’t remember the domain off the top of my head but even if I could, I think we’d be drifting solidly off-topic.

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

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Post by matheusmoreira »

> steer clear of hateful/racist/bigoted patterns of thought

If you want to widen the spectrum of humanity that you're exposed to, you're inevitably going to come across these people. Personally I thought it was well worth it. Plenty of good and bad to be found.

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