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?
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.