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From my perspective, the web is fine from a technological standpoint. Anybody can easily put text, images, video, audio online. Finding something that is inte

From my perspective, the web is fine from a technological standpoint. Anybody can easily put text, images, video, audio online. Finding something that is interesting is the hard part for me. I would like to see examples of individuals putting out interesting content. I mean apart from entertainment. Not stuff that is just funny or beautiful or thrilling. Is there any blogger, tweeter, activitipubber, blueskyer, nostrerer or whatever out there, where you guys think "Damn what they are doing is cool and interesting. I learn something from it for my life. I can't wait for the next update!"?

hggigg 2y ago
I'm not sure that content exists any more in any reasonable quantity. Occasionally a video will pop out which is interesting from someone but generally it's all below average. The attention dynamics have focused all content onto retaining viewers and reinforcement metrics around that. This normalised everything into mediocrity and delivering longer content with no meat. The only thing notable left in my mind which I await with interest is Ken Shirriff's blog: http://www.righto.com http://www.righto.com ... oh and Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com https://retractionwatch.com
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  just look for people who don't care about viewer retention? I've been having good luck with RSS and https://search.marginalia.nu https://search.marginalia.nu
  - beej71 2y ago
    I also make heavy use of RSS. That's how I find basically everything I read and view.
riffraff 2y ago
I feel a lot of content creators moved to videos or podcasts, I think cause that's easier to monetizes, but there seems to be _a lot_ of cool and interesting things being put on the web these days. E.g. I recently listened to a really interesting podcast about the indoeuropeans "invasion" of Europe. I agree it's somewhat harder to find good stuff among the chaff, but it's not like it's not out there.
- psjs 2y ago
  Do you have a link to that podcast?
  - riffraff 2y ago
    this one https://open.spotify.com/show/6QrdBI77Kwg5rFjQwaeByQ https://open.spotify.com/show/6QrdBI77Kwg5rFjQwaeByQ it's in italian tho
fragmede 2y ago
It's a bit lazy of me, but let others submit links to each update to a website, and then another group of users up vote the content, and then I use that website to find such content. I could curate such content myself, but I would still need some sort of an algorithm to surface the truly quality content from the morass of updates.

hggigg 2y ago

I'm not sure that content exists any more in any reasonable quantity. Occasionally a video will pop out which is interesting from someone but generally it's all below average. The attention dynamics have focused all content onto retaining viewers and reinforcement metrics around that. This normalised everything into mediocrity and delivering longer content with no meat. The only thing notable left in my mind which I await with interest is Ken Shirriff's blog: http://www.righto.com http://www.righto.com ... oh and Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com https://retractionwatch.com

082349872349872 2y ago
just look for people who don't care about viewer retention? I've been having good luck with RSS and https://search.marginalia.nu https://search.marginalia.nu
- beej71 2y ago
  I also make heavy use of RSS. That's how I find basically everything I read and view.

riffraff 2y ago

I feel a lot of content creators moved to videos or podcasts, I think cause that's easier to monetizes, but there seems to be _a lot_ of cool and interesting things being put on the web these days. E.g. I recently listened to a really interesting podcast about the indoeuropeans "invasion" of Europe. I agree it's somewhat harder to find good stuff among the chaff, but it's not like it's not out there.

psjs 2y ago
Do you have a link to that podcast?
- riffraff 2y ago
  this one https://open.spotify.com/show/6QrdBI77Kwg5rFjQwaeByQ https://open.spotify.com/show/6QrdBI77Kwg5rFjQwaeByQ it's in italian tho

fragmede 2y ago

It's a bit lazy of me, but let others submit links to each update to a website, and then another group of users up vote the content, and then I use that website to find such content. I could curate such content myself, but I would still need some sort of an algorithm to surface the truly quality content from the morass of updates.