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Ask HN: Which sites do you spend your evenings on? Where is the “real” Internet?
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RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm
3 years ago
For me, it has been https://old.reddit.com/r/all for many years.

But if you glance over reddit nowadays, almost everything is either a picture or video (which is probably what they wanted to achieve with their redesign?), it has gone full Eternal September, little insightful content.

And worse, if you look at the content itself, the majority of it seems to be ragebait nowadays. After watching CGP Grey's really insightful "This Video Will Make You Angry" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc) which explains the reasons why humans are prone to spread ragebait subconsciously, I cannot do this to myself anymore.

So I considered going back to the "real Internet", but I have spent so many years on reddit that I don't even know anymore where the "Internet" actually is.

Yes, Hacker News is very nice (I thank all of you!) and similar to pre-September reddit, but reading IT news in the evening is dangerous for me because it is work-alike and the IT industry does quite a lot of enraging things as well which I don't want to hear about before I have to go to bed.

So: Where is the "party" at nowadays?

Or is the party over for ever?

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