I was there, literally, 5 seconds and already saw a headline that pissed me off. No thanks, I don't need any extra stress in my life.
Was it the one where doing yoga and eating healthy is a white supremacist dog whistle?
Hacker News but for independent blogs
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, that would be a good compromise and I would do it in a heartbeat, but that's NOT the procedure. More is required: >Participating >You log in with a Fediverse account (Mastodon, Pixelfed, GoToSocial, and others). If you don't have one, mastodon.social is free and takes two minutes. For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters. Too bad. A single email WOULD be great, as you…
> For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters. For technical people these things should be non starters as well. It is a group of people who should be acutely aware of everything wrong with social media, and many are not.
viermalbe: Done! Thank you.
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#123> https://tuesdaynight.blog/i-want-to-go-to-a-furry-con/ Ok. I think I'm good without this.
Content aside, not my thing either, I actually did really like this one. It has so much personality it reminded me of the early MySpace days before we all became identical looking Facebook timelines.
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#124I submitted a somewhat similar project yesterday to Show HN (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring, with zero community features. I call it bubblewire. Funny. I had no prior knowledge of bubbles.town until seeing it here now. bubbles.town looks nice! Hope to see more projects that aim to bring back the good old web. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552985
I think it's great. I don't mind the AI ranking system (it beats a free for all), though it's a bit like HN where only a few posts appeal to me.
I'd have upvoted you but I think you got eaten by /new.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bubbles dev here, I've heard you loud and clear and follow the discussion closely. I will change the default behaviour to open links in the same tab like on HN or Lobsters soon. But first the HN visitor wave needs to calm down.
So many comments debating the philosophy around this. I like it when these type of sites open a new tab for me. Is there a way to just code in a toggle between the two link opening types?
Middle-click a link to open a new tab. I can't force a link to open in the same window but I can with new tabs.
Sometimes it's easier to follow a link, have a look, and then go back without jumping around tabs.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like there's an RSS feed at the bottom. If you don't want to use the social aspects of the site, maybe just use that in an RSS reader? *Link: https://bubbles.town/rss
The briefing pages also have RSS, this way you see the most relevant stuff https://bubbles.town/editions
Hmmz the "briefing" rss feed can't be filtered by "minimum votes", i believe...?
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#127Ah, I love a good classic curated-authors aggregator. The days of yore have returned! Gives me hope. And thank you for having posts open to HN, that’s a brilliant way to augment rather than displace.
On first glance, the first several posts are more interesting than HN; that’s a good sign. But there’s no hide link to mask the AI posts I don’t care about; perhaps one appears after signup?
But. HN’s single-post mute method is treading water at best versus the flood, and with the sixth post on the homepage being outsourced-to-AI, clearly that will persist at Bubbles. Can I mute specific blogs that are just repeatedly posting ‘I subcontracted my project to AI and am now taking credit as if I did the work myself’ on this site? If so, I’d give this a full week tryout immediately.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
The briefing pages also have RSS, this way you see the most relevant stuff https://bubbles.town/editions
Hmmz the "briefing" rss feed can't be filtered by "minimum votes", i believe...?
The briefing rss feed contains one entry per day with a link to that days briefing page. The briefing itself cannot be customized, it's the same for everybody.
For the list views you can use the filter menu to filter by min votes or subscribe to any of the min vote rss feeds.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters. For technical people these things should be non starters as well. It is a group of people who should be acutely aware of everything wrong with social media, and many are not.
viermalbe: Done! Thank you.
Here is the response from Bubbles:
From: Benjamin Behnke Date: June 17, 2026 at 12:32:25 PM EDT To: josephstirt@gmail.com Subject: Re: I am submitting my blog for your consideration: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for reaching out. Your post frequency is too high to be listed on Bubbles. You are publishing 3 articles per day. To quote from the criteria listed in the FAQ: Moderate pace. Not more than one or two posts per day on average. Bubbles is for writers, not content machines. I hope you'll understand. Let me know if you plan to slow down :)
Cheers, Ben