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Comment by Thoeu388 | Hacker News Reader

For complement I would recommend Russian yandex, and vk.com (russian facebook). It is like snapshot of internet from 2018, before everything was hit by massive censorship. It has some very niche communities that are no longer on internet. For example Ancient Egypt history, western net is filled with alien theories, Russians are doing experimental archaeology. Also repair, electronics...

Also Telegram is like second internet, nobody talks about!

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Yandex image search is actually useful, especially after Google destroyed their image search.

Telegram? How so? I'm still only using it for chatting. How would you even find anything on Telegram? The simple global search? I wouldn't like to join random shady groups found through there.

Not sure either, but trying to follow the war in Ukraine has taught me both Ukrainians and Russians get a surprising amount of their news from various Telegrams channels.

The search sucks, but you can find quite a lot of interesting stuff if you have a jumping off point by checking out the groups they forward from. I’ve discovered a few great groups like that.

Most of the stuff that comes up on search is spam or garbage though, agreed. I’ve found the majority of news groups I follow through twitter.

> Also Telegram is like second internet, nobody talks about!

Do you have any groups/channels that you can recommend?

For news?

https://t.me/CIG_telegram

https://t.me/BellumActaNews

Both provide decent coverage of global happenings.

The irony of someone recommending Russian platforms to evade "censorship" is astounding.

My thought as well. As a Russian I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. TG is full of CSAM and others are censored worse than anything in the US.

Yandex hits me with captchas every search and every 2-3 pages on Firefox.

How do you find google Telegrams? For me most seem bot spam

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