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Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by moralestapia »

susam wrote: post #32
moralestapia wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is StumbleUpon over again.

There is indeed a lot of similarity with webrings and StumbleUpon but there are some differences as well. I discuss this in more detail in the project README here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#faq

Just to clarify, I like Wander. I'd really like to see something fill in the void left by StumbleUpon.

I used to spend hoooooooours wandering there.

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by oystersareyum »

InexSquirrel wrote: post #42

Very cool. Reminds me of stumbleupon, which I lost many hours to back in the day. Curated discovery is one of biggest gripes with modern platforms like youtube - discovering something truly new and outside of your normal interests is really difficult, and the same goes for the web. If you have a topic you want to explore it's fine, but finding random things you'd never have thought of yourself is much harder.

Stumble upon led to most of my interests in life, so happy for this

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by Uncle_Clark »

oystersareyum wrote: post #54
InexSquirrel wrote: post #42

Very cool. Reminds me of stumbleupon, which I lost many hours to back in the day. Curated discovery is one of biggest gripes with modern platforms like youtube - discovering something truly new and outside of your normal interests is really difficult, and the same goes for the web. If you have a topic you want to explore it's fine, but finding random things you'd never have thought of yourself is much harder.

Stumble upon led to most of my interests in life, so happy for this

Same. Curated content narrows the scope of discovery to find meaningful things. I always look for a way to turn off that "feature." Very cool!

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by rando77 »

InexSquirrel wrote: post #42

Very cool. Reminds me of stumbleupon, which I lost many hours to back in the day. Curated discovery is one of biggest gripes with modern platforms like youtube - discovering something truly new and outside of your normal interests is really difficult, and the same goes for the web. If you have a topic you want to explore it's fine, but finding random things you'd never have thought of yourself is much harder.

I've thought of a service that scans new websites and GitHub repos and looks for things that don't look like anything else (using something like hdbscan for outlier detection), and creates a feed for people to follow.

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by worldsayshi »

xnorswap wrote: post #26

So is this web rings all over again?

I kind of want webrings but with federated OIDC. I.e. you can create an account at any of the sites and re-use the login on the others to leave comments/add content. This has to exist in some neat package right?
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