Everything on the Internet was much better before advertisers were willing to spend real money on the Internet. Once the advertisers began to take the Internet seriously, and companies committed to an advertising model, everything went to hell.
Your mailbox? Likely stuffed with junk.
Your inbox? Likely stuffed with junk, or if it's not, make sure to check your spambox in case someone real is trying to contact you.
Your phone? Nobody answers calls because they're mostly telemarketers.
SMS? Yeah that's spammed to hell too.
Walls? Covered in billboards, in a tacky Red Queen race that nobody actually wins.
Public space? Nobody talks to each other in part because people who appear friendly are often trying to sell you something.
Tildes is a nice place as well.
"Best of the Web" since 1999
A broad set of interests are represented there, not just programming or technology focused. The submission quality is high, and it is well moderated.
MetaFilter has always had a pretty strong community. The addition of a $5 membership fee, similar to SomethingAwful, seems to have helped filter out the riff raff.
There's also an "ask" section, and ones for projects and music. Overall, it's a good community for general discussion of things happening on and offline.
As always, hope u got 10bux...
By the way, if a lobsters user is reading this, I would love an invite :)
One of its continued strengths is the number of useful or deep articles in tech combined with a high number of people in the community that write them. The audience is pretty passive. We have some people who steadily have good insights and submissions on specific topics. Then, there are some that show up out of nowhere with whopper comments you won't find in other places. They avoid high-traffic/noise sites like HN. So, you only see them on places like that. So, I read both the orange and red sites. :)
(was: Provide me with a way to contact you and I will.)
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signal: noise is a thing.
And while we're at it, I also want to get rid of the advertising that came chasing after these people.
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/national/puerto-rico-has-tur...
We can't pretend that Google, Youtube, etc could have continued indefinitely in their original forms without ever having to become profitable, or having to make any compromises.