Anyone wanna share interesting things?

[malymin]

I kind of miss how easy it was to see people talking about media, technology, history, etc that I'd never heard about before on Cohost... despite Cohost having some structural similarities to Tumblr, I just don't get that experience there.

I'm pretty bummed out by recent events (to put it mildly), and I imagine a lot of other people here are too. Anyone wanna share stuff that brings them joy, or at the very least positive stimulation? Books you're reading, hobbies you've gotten into, etc.

I had been reading Who Owns this Sentence by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu, which is very good, but had to take a break because it was just making me depressed thinking about how we're going to get out of the enclosure of the cultural commons on top of... everything else. I've had a bit of fun with a short free fangame RPG on Itch.io, made by a user going by Atena. And I'd like to share an old middle-school favorite website, "Dog Coat Colour Genetics" by an artist named Jess, as well as the even bigger and older "MessyBeast" website run by Sarah Hartwell, which is an especially thorough as a resource on cat color genetics, but has many other interesting alleyways to explore.

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[malymin]

Makes sense. I distinctly remember a lot of websites I browsed going offline as a kid because the siterunner couldn't pay for hosting anymore, or just lost interest... need to remember that that's what the ecosystem originally looked like, and that we just need to be able to get used to and adapt to it again.

[onlyknownothing]

As a crazily-apropos circumstance, Petit Tube went down since I linked you to it - I was intending to mention it on my own post about ways to escape the YouTube algorithm and found out it was gone. As mentioned, however, there are alternatives: ytstalker is basically the same thing, albeit with sliders to adjust for upload date and number of "likes."