yo. where do you like to go on the internet?

name your favorite websites (better if niche), your favorite communities (again, better if niche), interesting instagram pages, interesting profiles to follow on any social media, podcasts, web forums, discord server, strange exotic communities, tumblr, horny stuff, videos, whatever. Don’t self censor yourself please!

(cross-posted: https://hexbear.net/post/415928)

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One of my favorite sites: https://www.windows93.net/

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ok this is cool

I had to find the author: http://jankenpopp.com/ and he is so creative and skilled. wonderful stuff, and great link, thanks!

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There is also this one; it’s an actual genuine Windows 95 running on WASM in your browser

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Running Win95 on a cell phone.

Damn thats wild! I remember I wished I could run Windows on a phone back in 00-ish instead of those crappy, brand-specific phone OS’s. What else was I gonna use a phone for, its not like I had anyone to call. Now I can.

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Still nobody to call, though…

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Someone posted a link to this site the other day and now I’m hooked https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/

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I love websites with some real curatorial effort. Thank you for the link!

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I might be boring here, but outside of Lemmy, none of the websites I frequent are niche.

YouTube, Wikipedia, Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own, MAL, sci-hub, eBay, TV Tropes, Reddit (though I only read now, I don’t participate in the discussions since July).

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What do you like to watch on youtube?

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A wide variety of content. I really like watching cooking related channels like Food Wishes, Alex (French Guy Cooking), Ethan Chlebowski, Jun’s Kitchen, Italia Squisita, ETC.

For tech I like Level1Techs and related channels, Serve the Home, MKBHD, Der8auer, Jeff Geerling, Gamer’s Nexus, Northwest Repair, Louis Rossmann, maker.moekoe.

For science I like Huygens Optics, The Thought Emporium, Veritasium, Dr. Becky, AlphaPhoenix, Steve Mould, and many others.

For music, I like Polyphia, Ichika Nito, BERNTH, CharlesBerthoud, BAND-MAID, Paolo Gans, Ado, Syudou, ELFENSJóN, ETC…

For fountain pens I like Flexperiments (the channel has 237 subbs, but really deserves more), and Doodlebud.

Others: Not Just Bikes, GxAce, Tom Scott, Inheritance Machining, The Bioneer.

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awesome! i am going to check those, I just knew few of them (Veritasium, CharlesBerthoud, Louis Rossmann, Italia Squisita, etc)

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fuck yeah fanfiction.net and Tv Tropes! Loved those back in the day.

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There are no limits. I’ve brought up before I hold the world record for the most websites having signed up for. I can’t think of a single website out of thousands I’m not on, otherwise I’d sign up.

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Let me get my gay porn sites out. 😇

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To be fair, my family is very LGBT-heavy, and I was questioning my sexuality at one point.

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We should always question our beliefs!

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Do you really? How do you go about proving that kind of thing?

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A combination of linking all my profiles together, leaving traces of myself on each website (including selfies, intricate life details, my artstyle, vocaroo links, cryptography since I found subtle ways like this to cue I’ve been in certain places, etc.) being able to be quizzed on every website, and a wiki page. There was a world record wiki page (and a companion non-wiki page) where I was registered with the world record, though I’m trying to find it again, Google’s algorithm change this year has thrown Google searching into a bit of uncertainty. Or it may have been deleted.

One thing that should be noted is, when it comes to world records, sometimes the definitions of a feat have no choice but to be looser than how society sees that feat. For example, we often think of web accounts as being one and the same with the person who made it and use it and always think of it equating to exactly one person, but the world record system for the world record will remind the reader that it’s difficult to see an account as anything more than another inanimate object, so it moreso defines it by account co-identification than it does going to said person to have them log onto all the accounts to prove themselves (though for most websites I can do that on a good day), since there is nothing written in stone that access to something is exclusive to the person who is “seen” as owning it. It’s also not one of those stereotypical world records, as in the world record system (Guinness or otherwise) might have a list of world records that everyone might think of when it comes to world records (such as deepest descent, strongest thing ever pulled, etc.) and then there are world records they have stored away somewhere (because they can) but at the same time not in the spotlight (such as person with the most penpals, person with the most As Seen On TV products, etc.), although the record definitely exists and can be proven.

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Did you ever fall victim to scams doing this?

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Very rarely someone could argue that this occurred. I’m not a native to my area so I rely a lot on the bank logins of my brother for premium purchases, and I do so scarcely, so that much has almost never been an issue as a side effect. One thing I will say is that, if you don’t like unpleasant surprises, don’t sign up for anything belonging to EA. Yahoo was a bummer too.

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Yahoo really just rekted some shit online back in the day. I’m not surprised lol

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It’s German but this guy has been blogging since the beginning of time http://blog.fefe.de/

https://gurushots.com/ photography challenges, quite fun.

https://flickr.com/ photography community

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I translated some stuff in that German blog. It’s kinda wild, vaccination damage and the KGB mixed with more far right conspiracy theories and then just general normal stuff.

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I guess from a quick look and with the translation the nuances of the conspiracy theories mentioned might not quite be obvious. But when you read it in German it’s more obvious that he’s making fun of (let’s say) most of them.

That guy is a security auditor of software as his main job and this blog is just his pet project on the side.

[edit] but yeah it’s quite a wild ride, that’s what is the appeal for many people like me.

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It can be amusing, I used to read there regularly too, but taking it too seriously is a bad idea.

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