Today as I was searching for interesting communities to join I suddenly became saddened as I remembered this app that I spent hours using. StumbleUpon. When it was young it was the app I spent the most time on waiting between classes. just finding something interesting was always worth it.

The app is not what it used to be. I went to stumbleupon.com just to see and its all corporate. I’m sad because I kinda want StumbleUpon for the fediverse. Maybe I don’t want to search for hours looking for communities to join, mastodon users to follow, or pixelfed instances that may have great photos. Maybe I want StumbleUpon for the Fediverse. I could connect it with any federated account, stumble upon something interesting, and subscribe. How could we go about building that?

What are your thoughts?

  • catdaemon@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    People tend to post things to talk about here, and there’s not so much “interesting” stuff and more memes/news. The thing about Stumbleupon was that it was curated in a very particular way. I don’t think the internet is anything less than it was, it’s just harder to find the good stuff.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksM
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      1 year ago

      That’s fair. But it’s also becoming so hard to find the good stuff that I think you have to acknowledge that the internet as a whole is lesser. Even if everything from 15 years ago were still on the internet (and it’s certainly not), the addition of a mountain of shit has still caused the average quality of content to drop precipitously.