/b/ - Siberia

Yeah I feel that bro, I kind of like how you can keep up with all the content on leftychan and then close it for the day knowing you're done.

Tiktok for example I have to remind myself that the scrolling will NEVER end. In fact there's a funny joke type of post there that says "you've reached the end" and some elevator music.

Yeah it feels like every time I find a site that I like, it eventually turns into an infinite feed. I usually give it a chance and use the provided settings to focus on content I'm actually interested in, but they always sneak another method in.

In theory there's great content on YouTube and reddit, and even Instagram, but good luck actually getting a feed of things you've followed or subscribed to. It's just noise until you're exhausted and have forgotten what you were doing with your life.

Imageboards are way worse.

Also why not make playlists and download your favorite videos?

it all feels like slop being fed to keep me watching after a while

>>158611

The death of the internet and people's attention span began with the creation of the infinite scroll in 2006. The inventor, Aza Raskin literally apologized for ruining people's lives

(https://medium.com/pitfall/the-inventor-of-the-infinite-scroll-is-sorry-for-ruining-your-life-be953bf0ccfb)

I miss the days of web rings, fun personal sites where people posted about their lives and you ACTIVELY seek out content you want to read.

Fuck the algorithms serving up nonsense.

I very much like using GrayJay as my app for consuming YouTube, without even needing an account you can subscribe to creators and then watch their content. It has a recommended page but it doesn't algorithmically serve you with content on the front page etc. It has really help me cut down on the whole infinity scroll thing. (https://grayjay.app/)

I am with you though, OP.

Another cool site I found to cut out the infinite scroll is Wiby (https://wiby.me/) it serves you random web pages from the internet and it feels very reminiscent of the good old days of browsing the web. Very nostalgic too, almost like a time capsule.

I feel we really need to make an effort to break this 'they offer me this content, they make me scroll, they collect my data and then sell it but… hahah funny monkey eating chocolate with AI voice over the top make me feel good so I let them off' mentality.

Yeah.. i cant remember what my point is but I agree.

There are ways to try and stop the scroll though :)

>>158683
I like how people whine about the most irrelevant things and scapegoat them as the cause of moral decay.

"Muh infinite scroll"
"Muh AI"

Yet there are far more serious problems you all wave off.

>>158684
>>158684
>Yet there are far more serious problems you all wave off.
fed

>>158683
Cool.

Can these old java website chat rooms still work? I clicked on one thing (and my browser already doesn't like these old "unsecured" sites) some IRC thing, and I was forbade from it because it was 'for something other than internet browsing' or some shit.
I think it would be cool to get back into old BBS systems like when I was 13, but I am now technologically retarded. I installed drives and used MS-DOS an could learn all sorts of computer shit when I was a teenager. Now I can't figure anything out. The idea of linux and or anything outside of what comes preloaded by HP or Dell terrifies me. I'm sure there are still dudes out there using Amigas on CRT monitors to do stuff online and they probably have an entire community of 40-70 year old old-school computer nerds playing Legend of the Red Dragon with ANSI graphics. If I never upgraded I could still be there. It's like why did I get rid of my old 8 bit consoles; where did they go?

How can I go back? I don't have the motivation to learn computer shit from the ground up again. I'm a lazy middle-aged guy now. Is there some simple guide to being an off-the-grid surfer? Is there anything like AOL still happening? Has it all gone to social media now? I don't use any of that shit. I don't use a smartphone. If I could get dial-up again I probably would. I want a different internet experience. I don't make accounts and comment on shit. I don't do much scrolling. The idea of tiktok is revolting to me. I hate vertical videos.

Is there an old text-based internet I can live on? I have a few old computers. I've seen people go online on early 90s Macintoshes like I have. Probably a lot of work.
I should get into ham radio. I hear they're able to transmit files over the airwaves now. That seems like a cool community.

>>158683
This one site I found through wiby has been great. All sorts of photos from some foreign kid in the early 2000s. Generic taste in absolutely everything, but it's a nice chronicling of the times. Old, tiny GIFs. Some of it really poor taste sex stuff. I'd forgotten about so much of it.
It even had a radio station and a forum and chat room, all of which now redirects to dead sites. How much could it cost to keep old sites going? There must be some perpetuity deals. The internet archive is cool and all but so much of it just isn't interactive anymore. Just broken pages to see what they used to look like.
So much lost stuff.
Sometimes I find an old hard drive with old bookmarks and half of them are inactive.

Kid was really into martial arts. It's funny how some of the images will just be gone. Most are low resolution. Some are terribly tiny and low res as well. Only a few were like 1000x700 size. Those were like luxury items back then. I still have some of the images that I'd had on my myspace page somewhere. And folders from my first years on 4/420chan. So many 400X300 'memes'.
This is my first time on this slow ass site. But I like the old typewriter font and that it's naturally in dark mode.
I only ended up on leftypol from a ban on 4chan (for being a lefty) and just learned this offshoot even existed.
Pretty cool so far.

>>158684
And here we are sitting on our screens in our irrelevant bubbles doing fuck all.

>>158683
This website has a cytube channel but it doesn't work?

Not getting the best first impression of this place.

Now I'm emailing the guy. I've concluded he's German, though he seems to be heavily into Asian stuff. Americans are so isolated in our own culture. At least I am. I like a few foreign movies and don't mind reading subtitles, but I just can't relate to a lot of it. Especially anime and RPGs all that stuff. But this guy likes cars and animals and karate and all sorts of sports from various european nations. The movies are all mainstream American stuff.
I doubt he still checks his email addresses for his 2006 webpage. This is what I'm doing. I'm trying to make a german pen pal with someone I have nothing in common with.
I'd legit be an actual pen pal and send mail to some other country with flyers and local stuff in it. How can I get that going?

I just took the poll. I wonder when the last time someone else did. I'm guessing over 15 years.

Why is there no weed flag here?

Is that something you didn't like about the old website you seceded from? lol, there's probably all sorts of shit like that here, huh?

>>158699
And it's official. He's actually SHUT DOWN his email address. Is that fucked up or what?
Would yahoo deactivate an address just because someone hasn't used it in a while? Is that a thing?
To think I planned on checking the mail on my 8 or 9 lost addresses once I find the passwords.
Anyway, it's sad that this eXtremeweb kid isn't around tending to his website. He's probably 50 years old now.