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yo. where do you like to go on the internet?

name your favorite websites (better if niche), your favorite communities (again, better if niche), interesting instagram pages, interesting profiles to follow on any social media, podcasts, web forums, discord server, strange exotic communities, tumblr, horny stuff, videos, whatever. Don't self censor yourself please!

(cross-posted: https://hexbear.net/post/415928)

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[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is also this one; it's an actual genuine Windows 95 running on WASM in your browser

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Running Win95 on a cell phone.

Damn thats wild! I remember I wished I could run Windows on a phone back in 00-ish instead of those crappy, brand-specific phone OS's. What else was I gonna use a phone for, its not like I had anyone to call. Now I can.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Still nobody to call, though...

[–] mah@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

ok this is cool bordiga-despair

I had to find the author: http://jankenpopp.com/ and he is so creative and skilled. wonderful stuff, and great link, thanks!

This blog is incredible:

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

There aren't many articles, but the ones that exist have been crafted with EXTREME attention to detail and DELIGHTFULLY interactive animations. I would recommend the mechanical watch and internal combustion engine posts specifically to start. If you like knowing how things work, this guys blog scratches that itch better than like, anything else I have found for the specific things he makes posts about. Have fun, be prepared to kill a few hours.

[–] orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love blogs, specially from people with niche interests and experiences. I follow them via RSS. So that's what I read outside of Lemmy / Reddit / Mastodon.

Recently I've been following the blog written by an IT guy working in a research station in Antarctica (also has a great domain name).

https://brr.fyi/

[–] mah@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

ahah wow thanks! how did you find it? the post about south pole signage is kinda hilarious https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage

[–] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://cari.institute/aesthetics

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, it's a neat website showing design trends in advertising, packaging, print, etc throughout the years.

[–] mah@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

this is incredibly cool omg!!! thank you!

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I might be boring here, but outside of Lemmy, none of the websites I frequent are niche.

YouTube, Wikipedia, Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own, MAL, sci-hub, eBay, TV Tropes, Reddit (though I only read now, I don't participate in the discussions since July).

[–] mah@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you like to watch on youtube?

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A wide variety of content. I really like watching cooking related channels like Food Wishes, Alex (French Guy Cooking), Ethan Chlebowski, Jun's Kitchen, Italia Squisita, ETC.

For tech I like Level1Techs and related channels, Serve the Home, MKBHD, Der8auer, Jeff Geerling, Gamer's Nexus, Northwest Repair, Louis Rossmann, maker.moekoe.

For science I like Huygens Optics, The Thought Emporium, Veritasium, Dr. Becky, AlphaPhoenix, Steve Mould, and many others.

For music, I like Polyphia, Ichika Nito, BERNTH, CharlesBerthoud, BAND-MAID, Paolo Gans, Ado, Syudou, ELFENSJΓ³N, ETC...

For fountain pens I like Flexperiments (the channel has 237 subbs, but really deserves more), and Doodlebud.

Others: Not Just Bikes, GxAce, Tom Scott, Inheritance Machining, The Bioneer.

[–] mah@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

awesome! i am going to check those, I just knew few of them (Veritasium, CharlesBerthoud, Louis Rossmann, Italia Squisita, etc)

[–] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Let me know which categories interest you, I may have more recommendations.

[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

fuck yeah fanfiction.net and Tv Tropes! Loved those back in the day.

[–] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mah@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

you can do everything!

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Hackaday.com is my favourite blog on the Internet and I've been reading it for over a decade, it never gets boring.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There used to be this plugin and site called something like "Stumble Upon". You click on the big Stumble button and it takes you to a random place on the WWW based on your interests. It was awesome. I miss it. Anyone know something similar that still works?

[–] pirtedad@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That was how I discovered Reddit, didn't realise it was gone..

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago
[–] tau@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Simon Tatham's Puzzle Collection. Just a bunch of cool puzzles for wasting time. No ads or bells and whistles.

You can download them or just play in the browser. Someone also made the collection into an Android app, which I usually use.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 4 points 1 year ago

Someone posted a link to this site the other day and now I'm hooked https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's German but this guy has been blogging since the beginning of time http://blog.fefe.de/

https://gurushots.com/ photography challenges, quite fun.

https://flickr.com/ photography community

[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I translated some stuff in that German blog. It's kinda wild, vaccination damage and the KGB mixed with more far right conspiracy theories and then just general normal stuff.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sovietsteeds.com It's a really niche forum that was made in the distant past and then stubbornly refused to change, much like the motorcycles they ride.

I love the orange and black website!!!!!

[–] Uresname@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tagpro.gg - fun lil browser game

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

free-mp3-download.net for stealing FLACs from Deezer.

frogfind.com - search engine (or rather proxy) for vintage computers

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world is a cool directory of gopher links. There's also Veronica-2 search engine. You'll need a browser that supports gopher protocol, from the top of my head I can name bombadillo, lynx and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or lower.

WWW Images starter packs:
https://www.tau.ac.il/images/Images.html
http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/images/Images.html
http://www.it.uu.se/pics/

Meteor M-N2-3 satellite LRPT operational status

rtl-sdr.com - RTL-SDR blog. I just found they released RTL-SDRv4 😲 and it's even cheaper than previous model!

Direct audio stream list of my favorite internet radiosRadio rock:
http://stream.bauermedia.sk/rock-hi.mp3
http://stream.bauermedia.sk/rock-lo.mp3

Radio1:
http://play.global.audio/radio1.aac 48kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio1.ogg
http://play.global.audio/radio1.opus
http://play.global.audio/radio1128 128kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio164 48kbps
http://play.global.audio/radio1_low.ogg
http://play.global.audio/radio1hi.aac 128kbps
https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/RADIO_1AAC_L.aac
https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-redirect/RADIO_1AAC_H.aac

aNONradio:
http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio

KGRG:
https://www.ophanim.net:8444/s/7090

telnet telehack.com - There's eliza, an early AI chatbot made in 1966. AI chatbots aren't such a new thing.

Love those radio rock stations, thanks for sharing those!

[–] JeeperDon@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I still use Reddit, just not on my phone since their app suck and is full of ads.

[–] aurele@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aged like fine wine.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are no limits. I’ve brought up before I hold the world record for the most websites having signed up for. I can’t think of a single website out of thousands I’m not on, otherwise I’d sign up.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Let me get my gay porn sites out. πŸ˜‡

[–] DudePluto@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you really? How do you go about proving that kind of thing?

A combination of linking all my profiles together, leaving traces of myself on each website (including selfies, intricate life details, my artstyle, vocaroo links, cryptography since I found subtle ways like this to cue I've been in certain places, etc.) being able to be quizzed on every website, and a wiki page. There was a world record wiki page (and a companion non-wiki page) where I was registered with the world record, though I'm trying to find it again, Google's algorithm change this year has thrown Google searching into a bit of uncertainty. Or it may have been deleted.

One thing that should be noted is, when it comes to world records, sometimes the definitions of a feat have no choice but to be looser than how society sees that feat. For example, we often think of web accounts as being one and the same with the person who made it and use it and always think of it equating to exactly one person, but the world record system for the world record will remind the reader that it's difficult to see an account as anything more than another inanimate object, so it moreso defines it by account co-identification than it does going to said person to have them log onto all the accounts to prove themselves (though for most websites I can do that on a good day), since there is nothing written in stone that access to something is exclusive to the person who is "seen" as owning it. It's also not one of those stereotypical world records, as in the world record system (Guinness or otherwise) might have a list of world records that everyone might think of when it comes to world records (such as deepest descent, strongest thing ever pulled, etc.) and then there are world records they have stored away somewhere (because they can) but at the same time not in the spotlight (such as person with the most penpals, person with the most As Seen On TV products, etc.), although the record definitely exists and can be proven.

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[–] starfennec@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some great games at neal.fun

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago
[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

nyaa.si and 1337x

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Every mon/wed/fri I open tabs of some webcomics I follow:

I've followed a lot of other comics, but these have been updated VERY damn reliably for a long time.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

https://novelai.net
It's an AI writing tool for stories. I got about half a dozen stories in progress and switch between them whenever one is starting to get stale.

It's nothing fancy, and I'm not a great writer. But I love exploring new worlds this way, building the lore as I go along.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Horny answer incoming:

If you're into ERP at all, f-list.net is unparalleled in catering to just about anything you can think of that isn't outright illegal. There's a lot of trash as you can imagine, but you can build out a fairly intensive kink list and scroll through an absurd number of character profiles and channels for just about anything.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly it’s great. I’ve had some really great stories there and met some amazing partners and learned things about kink I just had no idea about before. There are a certain amount of people there clearly for in the moment stuff but also so many passionate, knowledgeable people including some of the most capable DM’s I’ve ever met.

[–] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

http://mynoise.net

Amazing library of customizable ambient noises and soundscapes, pretty much all recorded and developed by one guy. I think β€œRain on a Tent” is the best rain track available on the internet.

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