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Comment by honzabe | Hacker News Reader

Lately, I feel like I am overwhelmed by content, and yet it is increasingly rare to find something authentic, something that is not either made just as a vehicle for advertising or designed to attract attention and likes on social media.

I was re-reading The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton recently. I love that book and if he lived today, he would be a travel blogger... so I tried to find a blog that would feel like that. And google search gives me more travel blogs than I can absorb, but they all feel like products.

I haven't had the time to go through blogs by HNers carefully yet but I hope there might be some gems in that pile. HN attracts a certain kind of people and if blogs written by them differ from the rest of the internet the same way HN itself, that would be great.

I like this idea very much. Thank you, the author of that original thread, and thank you, the creator of https://dm.hn

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Just reviewing what I've got added to my feed reader:

* tilde.news

* Lobsters

* Slashdot

* lemmy.sdf.org

* the linux sub on lemmy.ml

* A selection of the less annoying subreddits, like r/askphilosophy

* A selection of local news websites for where I live

* A selection of blogs written by random people who I think are interesting

* Hackaday

* indieretronews.com

* Hacker Public Radio

* HN of course

* And other random stuff. And dm.hn is probably going to be amazing when I have some time to comb through it

In the event that none of it's interesting, I pop open a Gemini client and just start clicking around, I always find the most random long ramblings. The Lagrange client in particular is a very refreshing reading/browsing experience.

Internet content has never been better and I don't feel overwhelmed by inauthentic stuff at all, I know that there's a lot of it out there, but it rarely reaches my eyeballs, mainly through the now-decaying morass that is Reddit sometimes.

Mind you it took me years to come up with the list of feeds I like and it's very personal to my interests, but it's always just been a text file that I edit so it was easy.

that's why I find it refreshing to read... Books. As opposed to blogs. My feed reader now has easily a thousand unread entries, because I'm also overwhelmed with their nature of "vehicle for advertising"* (sometimes advertising just themselves)

Books are authored, proof-read, and since you already paid for it, chances are lower to find this advertising feel tothe.

* I love this expression!

Absolutely - I've been rediscovering books lately. Although it is hard - the years of interneting did a number on my attention span and habits.

I used to be a voracious reader when I was a kid. That book I mentioned - the Royal Road to Romance - I remember how smitten I was by that book when I was 14. Now it felt really slow (compared to YouTube shorts) and I had trouble getting into it. But once I did, the sparks of the old excitement appeared again. Completely different feeling than after 2 hours of YouTube shorts.

Books are great but I am sure that there is a lot of content on the internet written because someone genuinely wanted to say something (and BTW, not that books written as products are that rare either). It's just harder and harder to find it.

You might enjoy The Long Ride by Lloyd Sumner -- dude set off on a bicycle with a couple hundred dollars in the early '70s and bicycled around the world.

My general idea on asking this question, is how to answer the questions:

- How to add comments to my blog post ? => Just add a link to your blog post here.

- How to upvote on a blog / blog article ? => Just use HN.

- How to aggregate for facilitate search/categorization ? => There's a site here. Because Google Search sucked so hard now.

- In case of LLM feeding, you own your own policies and privacy on your own data.

Thanks you for joining.

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