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Re: Please help me find better blogs to read

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Post by ziddoap » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:26 PM UTC

seumars wrote: post #11

sitkack wrote: post #5

I'd recommend going to a library or bookstore. Esp one with literary magazines.

This is the only correct suggestion

Libraries and books are great.

They are not the only "correct" way to read about topics you enjoy, though. (Whatever "correct" even means when it comes to personal enjoyment.)

Re: Please help me find better blogs to read

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Post by homebrewer » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:28 PM UTC

https://mattlakeman.org is alright for long tourism stories intermixed with descriptions of history and politics of the place.

Re: Please help me find better blogs to read

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Post by FumblingBear » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:28 PM UTC

This is pretty obscure, but I've found the more niche, the more I enjoy a blog. [0] It's a series of posts on a blog called Taskerland (written by Moreau Vazh) that do some literary analysis on classic works of horror, specifically, the works of Thomas Ligotti and H.P. Lovecraft.

If you enjoy short form horror stories, and want to read someone's interpretation of the themes and background of some horror with substantial literary merit, it might be worth a shot! It actually encouraged me to start my own blog, doing something similar—though I'm still in the early stages of writing it.

[0] - https://tasker.land/category/series/canon-fodder/

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:29 PM UTC

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Re: Please help me find better blogs to read

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Post by hcaz » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:29 PM UTC

https://brr.fyi/ is a really good read about a dude who worked at the south pole for a while

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Post by dnel » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 2:29 PM UTC

elicksaur wrote: post #14

jmclnx wrote: post #6

There is a whole world out there, gemini and gopher, that has all kind of information. lynx works well with gopher and amfora for gemini. Plus on cell phones deedum also for gemini. some links: gopher://sdf.org/1/ gemini://sdf.org gemini://gem.sdf.org

A counter perspective by the maker of amfora (which appears to be in maintenance mode) > After a lot of thinking, I’ve realized there is one main reason I don’t keep coming back to Gemini: it offers no advantage over how I already use the Web. https://www.makeworld.space/2023/08/bye_gemini.html

That may be true if you routinely use a text mode web browser and get all your content from RSS feeds, I've certainly moved more in that direction to avoid the sensory overload of the modern web.

I still find Gemini great for reading long-form content though, I appreciate Gemtext is the important factor in this and if web browsers would render it over HTTPS then great, but I'm not aware of any that do.

I also like to use Gemini on vintage hardware that really struggle on the modern web, some of that hardware isn't even that old anymore, low-end devices from just 10 years ago with 2-4GB RAM will have a hard time nowadays.