Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)
I remember the thousands of interesting and weird pages listed on StumbleUpon - directories of obscure topics, avant garde art projects and detailed field specific blogs - many of them both pretty and thoroughly made.<p>Mind expanding stuff.<p>I feel like today all of that has moved to silos like tiktok and instagram, in extreme short form formats that are easily disposable - so almost no one creates truly great &quot;compilations&quot; of stuff, directories, blogs, galleries or whatever - it&#x27;s all just streams of disconnected content free floating towards oblivion in a few days.<p>This has made everything bite-sized and fragmented everyones attention as nothing is getting polished or curated to perfection.<p>I miss people polishing stuff, then just letting it sit out there for people to enjoy. Today everything is hidden after a few days - so the rare gems disappear too while the algorithms and search engines favour the easily devourable in the first place.<p>We need something like Stumbleupon back, does that exist? I wonder why it wasn&#x27;t viable.