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You might be right. Almost all the 'weird web' stuff I’ve seen was through HN posts, so I got the idea that it was all just meta, edgy rejects with Bluesky accounts. I spent a couple of hours on wiby.me browsing sites at random and it was amazing. Thank you for that. However, 95% of the sites there haven't been updated in 15+ years. In fact, none of the 20+ sites I found through the 'surprise me' feature had any upda…
> It gives me the impression that this 'let's get the web back' movement is mostly nostalgia. Culture happens where it happens, not where it should happen. Today, that place is unfortunately a walled garden controlled by corporations. I hope that changes, but judging by these websites, that change isn't happening yet. So I think the overall situation is a bit more nuanced than that. I am someone who's very much in th…
Re: Strange.website
#71people have never posted weird shit on Instagram. Pinterest maybe, but not Instagram. I have been on it since the early days. It is either milquetoast "pics from my vacation" or influencer garbage. Even normal people do not post there anymore because Meta has flooded the feeds with a 100:1 ratio of ads and influencer material relative to friends' posts.