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Content is King? - How it sucked out the joy of personal websites (jeena.net)
submitted 5 months ago by jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It would be fun to bring back web rings. Alliances of websites that promoted similar content.

[–] osarusan@kbin.social 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those were the really fun days of the internet.

When surfing the web was actually an adventure and you'd actually discover things.

Not that I could ever go back to dial up speeds, but damn those days were fun.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's why I loved StumbleUpon when it first came out. I discovered so many cool niche things that way.

[–] bmsok@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

StumbleUpon was my jam. I could procrastinate my homework for HOURS with that toolbar!

The temptation to explore felt real. Not like clickbait.

It was that wonderful time on the internet where you got the chance to enrich your knowledge without having an algorithm force stuff on you because it thinks it knows what you like.

I love being surprised and love learning new things. The algorithms, AI, and SEO have stripped all of that curiosity and discovery away.

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

StumbleUpon was incredible. I actually engaged with the larger internet, rather than mostly sticking to the kiddy pool of comment sections. It's actually where I met my longtime partner, and now very good friend, so it had "real world" implications for me as well

I love being surprised and love learning new things. The algorithms, AI, and SEO have stripped all of that curiosity and discovery away.

I feel this as well. Everything I see or read now is accompanied by the slight suspicion that I'm reading fake content. Like is this picture or article something that another human put time and effort into, because they were trying to communicate something, or is it just generated based on what will garner eyeballs?

[–] mostlypixels@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Try cloudhiker

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Try viralwalk, works quite the same.

[–] mostlypixels@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago

I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Oh damn, forgot all about those