I miss StumbleUpon
I miss StumbleUpon
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?
This might be a little throwback: https://wiby.me/surprise/
Every time you open the link you will be forwarded to a random Web 1.0 homepage. There are many great gems to discover.
Amazing. I clicked it and was sent here:
http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/
Which I found quite interesting. Thanks for this! I am going to click on it some more
All you ever wanted to know about…
Pork Rinds!
Love it, thanks.
Yeah, this is a bunch of fun. Takes me back. Thanks for posting!
Stumbleupon was great because the internet was great. Not so much anymore.
But something like that for the fediverse could be cool. Unfortunately there are a lot of more pressing features that need to be added, so that one might take a while.
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.
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.
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
A long time.
I'm intrigued and in a position to build something like this.
Let's talk details. So there's ~2k Lemmy servers right now, probably like the top 100 are worth looking at. I can connect to any server and list communities and non-nsfw posts (regardless of if you have an account there). I can use their search box or use any of their sorting methods, and I could exclude anything from communities you're a part of, but I can't just pull something out randomly
So I could go to a server, grab the top local post for the day that links somewhere, I could pick a random community by hot or active, I could look for a library that will give me keywords to search and give you a list of sorted results across many servers
I guess I could also find how many communities they have, pick a random number, and check if that one has more than 5 users (if not, reroll)
Thoughts or suggestions?
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Sounds interesting, let me know if you ever follow this idea and make something, I'd be willing to check it out
I use this: https://cloudhiker.net/explore
Thanks! I just spent the last 2 hours reading random math and science articles. Mostly blog posts.
Notable ones I read:
Its not exactly for the Fediverse but you can try Cloudhiker. Has a similar function and you can choose the types of sites you want it to show.
I still have a loooooong bookmark folder of gems from StumbleUpon
I use https://lemm.ee/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world to find new communities on Lemmy. There’s also a community that uses a bot to post trending communities: https://lemm.ee/c/trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
It was nice indeed
That shit was dangerous
Same! It's what led me to find Reddit a long time ago.
I am new to fediverse / lemmy as well. The traverse menu in the Memmy app at least lists out other communities to explore. Not quite stumble upon, but still useful.
I’m just waiting for more people to leave Reddit I think. Sort of surprised that more expel haven’t.
The Reddit communities are opening back up and the mods are getting replaced. I don't think there will be many more Reddit refugees coming unless the company does something stupid again.
Unless?
More like until
Like withhold the official app icon behind premium?
I’ve been surprised that so many people are completely fine with Reddit shitting on their faces, but then I remember how mainstream it got over the years and it makes sense.
Yeah many of the newer redditors are predisposed to eating shit, and many of the medium term redditors haven't yet realized how full of shit reddit actually is.
It's sh.it all the way down.
Remember, most people there are passively consuming content and don’t care. It’s when the content dries up or becomes boring they will leave. The problem then will be that they go to Instagram, TikTok or Twitter instead of Lemmy.
I'm not a big sports fan but the majority of my friends are. That app got me through hours and hours of sportsball. I adored it and I still think about it.
I do miss it too, but I also don't think I would still enjoy it today
StumbleUpon introduced me to Minecraft in 2009 or 2010. It introduced me to lots of cool things! I would hit the stumble button over and over. Really cool concept, sad that it died out.
