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We're all in our 30s and 40s and 50s working boring old jobs now.

No idea where the culture went. Probably because it was greenfield then, laws were lax if not nonexistent, etc.

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Mass culture grew onto the Internet and homogenized everything. Politics finished off the resistance.

Culture's still here, still hanging out in the dark corners of the internet that most aren't invited to.

How do I get invited to them?

Also, probably discord.

from most of these things you get the energy out that you put in. You can't be part of amazing culture without manually sifting through niche culture on the regular. Without reading forum posts by frankly rubbish amateurs. Without going to the bar where different garage bands host their first gig every night. Almost by defintion anything media promotes to you won't be interesting and new.

If you just sit there and wait for it to come to you, you only get the things for which its worth people taking it to you. The things that extract the almighty dollar.

Okay, so the issue is, idk where to even begin to find such places let alone sift through them.

I found HN because I read a post by Scott Alexander (slate star codex), whom I found through lessWrong when I was studying RL and Control. And that was because I found OpenAI’s go-explore paper super interesting one night at the library which inspired me to go and do RL research for my thesis.

So I am hoping I get some pointers in here :D

Pay attention when wandering the Internet, and keep an eye out for interesting threads to pull get exceptionally interested in thread-pulling when people tell you not to pull them. Be prepared to not be squeaky clean, and be alert.

Gopher, Gemini, and https://wiby.me and https://search.marginalia.nu are still alive.

Usenet, too.

gopher intro: gopher://magical.fish and gopher://sdf.org

gemini intro: gemini://gemini.geminispace.info

More sites:

    gopher://1436.ninja

    gopher://adamsgaard.dk
    
    gopher://bay.parazy.de:666/7/q.dcgi?

    gopher://bitreich.org

    gopher://bitreich.org/9/radio/listen

    gopher://box.matto.nl

    gopher://gopher.erb.pw/1/roman

    gopher://gopher.icu
 
    gopher://gopher.viste.fr
 
    gopher://i-logout.cz
 
    gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta
 
    gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta/
 
    gopher://katolaz.net:70/1
 
    gopher://magical.fish
 
    gopher://medialab.freaknet.org

    gopher://ozz.ddns.net/1/
 
    gopher://republic.circumlunar.space
 
    gopher://sdf.org

    gopher://sdf.org/1/users/dbucklin
 
    gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/nm03
 
    gopher://texto-plano.xyz
 
    gopher://typed-hole.org
 
    gopher://uninformativ.de

    gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space

Usenet newsgrousps:

alt.2600

alt.2600.hackers

alt.2600.hope

alt.2600.hope.announce

alt.anonymous

alt.ascii-art

alt.comp.linux

alt.comp.os.linux

alt.computer.workshop

alt.culture.usenet

alt.cybergoth

alt.cyberpunk

alt.cyberpunk.movement

alt.cypherpunks

alt.fan.usenet

alt.folklore.computers

alt.linux

alt.os.linux

alt.os.linux.slackware

alt.privacy

alt.privacy.anon-server

alt.startrek

alt.sys.pdp10

alt.usenet

comp.arch

comp.infosystems.gemini

comp.infosystems.gopher

comp.lang.c

comp.lang.c.moderated

comp.lang.misc

comp.lang.perl

comp.lang.perl.announce

comp.lang.perl.faq

comp.lang.perl.misc

comp.lang.perl.moderated

comp.lang.perl.modules

comp.lang.perl.tk

comp.lang.scheme

comp.misc

comp.mobile.android

comp.mobile.android.misc

comp.mobile.misc

comp.os.cpm

comp.os.linux.misc

comp.risks

comp.unix.admin

comp.unix.misc

comp.unix.programmer

comp.unix.questions

comp.unix.shell

es.comp.hackers

es.comp.os.linux.anuncios

es.comp.os.linux.instalacion

es.comp.os.linux.misc

es.comp.os.linux.programacion

es.comp.os.linux.redes

hispagatos.chat

hispagatos.comunicados

hispagatos.talk

news.admin.moderation

news.announce.important

news.announce.newgroups

news.announce.newsgroups

news.groups

news.groups.proposals

news.software.nntp

rec.ars.movies.current-films

rec.ars.sf.tv

rec.ars.sf.written

rec.arts.int-fiction

rec.games.int-fiction

rec.games.roguelike.nethack

rec.radio.amateur.antenna

rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors

rec.radio.amateur.equipment

rec.radio.amateur.homebrew

rec.radio.amateur.misc

rec.radio.amateur.moderated

rec.radio.amateur.policy

rec.radio.amateur.space

rec.radio.info

rec.radio.shortwave

rocksolid.feeds

rocksolid.shared.i2p

sci.anthropology.paleo

sci.astro

sci.electronics.design

sci.electronics.repair

sci.environment

sci.logic

sci.math

sci.physics.relativity

sci.physics.research

talk.environment

talk.origins

Apparently we're all right here. It was a special time, it was like watching the birth of the publicly networked universe.

True.

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