Hexbear is the last fun place on the internet
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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There's still lots of cool stuff online, it's just not always new and hot. Doom scrolling is a trap. Return to random keyword searches to find the strange stuff. Even that is harder now with all these shifty walled platforms though. Pinterest is so annoying.
It's also harder because search engines have been rendered almost useless by optimization. It's so hard to find anything now. Youtube only shows you like five results you searched for before they switch to the useless "for you" category, which are just unrelated videos you've seen before.
I just like the feeling of nostalgia of sitting at a search box like I'm in high school again using the internet for the first time.
What weird word combinations can I put in this box, and what freaky stuff am I going to find? I guess the new version of this is AI generated content, but that's not usually nearly as interesting to me.
It's not even AI content that gets me, it's that every search I do returns pages and pages of links to related product ads. Looking for information? Too bad, only buying allowed
I miss when i was able to type like half of a thought into google and it'd find exactly what I wanted. That was like 10 years ago
If you actually want a recipe instead of a life changing epiphany story where some trust fund WASP learned how to live, laugh, and love again while vacationing and having brunch by the pier with their exotic ethnic friend, you're shit out of luck.
Those motherfuckers have massively and successively bombed search engines years ago with random snippets of sentences and niche stuff and copy-pasted crawled content and said search engines never entirely recovered
I hate them too
Pinterest is horrible. I should find an extension to block it from search results.
You should look into Kagi. It's a search engine where you can block sites like Pinterest entirely. You pay for search, but it's really good. You can promote sites you like, rank things, and it learns. Also has a Stumbleupon type small web feature!