I delete Tik Tok and Instagram every week, but then I find myself bored, cause there aren’t a lot of places on the web. Stumbleupon is dead. What are the best websites and publications you’ve found this year? Blogs, Journals, and Substacks count.
upbear for reading books. books fucking rock
Death to America
I already read a lot of books. I do like reading magazine articles so it's been frustrating to see the death of such an interesting format.
The internet is mostly dead IMO (dead internet theory came true) and splinternet is also happening/happened (TikTok ban is showing this in an obvious way), so other than the fediverse (mastodon, peertube, lemmy, etc) you might need to develop some new hobby to find entertainment around the web
uhh idk mastodon? i live in a city and we have a pretty decent alternative news/magazine, so i read through that when i get bored. otherwise, just scroll through page after page of hexbear threads which are just redirect links to news articles i'm not going to read with 0 comments in the thread.
with 0 comments in the thread.
switch your default setting back to active sort? its back to the old algo so its a decent mix of fresh or highly commented threads. Never going to be enough content here for endless scrolling though
The only website that you should visit is marxists.org
Once you've read everything on there, you can check out:
Stereogum - music news, album reviews, etc
Rock Paper Shotgun - videogame news and reviews
Indiewire - movie news and reviews
The Hard Times - the onion but for music
can you please describe indiewire's politics? always looking for based or at least left-ish writing about film
Death to America
I would say they are standard USA libs, perhaps a bit more to the left of that but not too much. At least they have a good take on Palestine. I'm also trying to find good leftist movie analysis but haven't found much
https://searxng.site/search?q=site%3Amarxists.org+samir+amin
you're gonna need more than that
Capitalism has been slowly killing the internet over the last 15 or so years. I really feels like it's been letting out it's final death rattles lately though.
As someone who spends a questionable and unhealthy amount of time online, I unfortunately have to say that to me, Bluesky is the one that's the most entertaining and the most likely to have links to interesting articles right now. But it's still a corporate social media site which sucks in a million ways, so I can only recommend it in comparison to something owned by Facebook or the like. If anyone figures out how to spend time offline as effortlessly as online, please tell me
i have started reading naked capitalism pretty much every day. it's decent and sometimes links to other interesting sites, so i'm slowly expanding my web of Vegetables Websites to balance out the dessert i consume here
Death to America
MRonline newswire and NakedCapitalism are the best way to catch up on the news, if you can abide the occasional posting of sussy sources from MR (you have to hand it to them, Samir Amin published there, they may drop WSWS and other weird shit on their newswire though) and weird contrarian investor Taibbi-adjacent posting NC will do it seriously gets you up to date on everything
I've been enjoying Low Tech Magazine, super interesting write ups with a bunch of projects I'd love to make one day. Doesn't update super frequently though. The site maintainer's blog No Tech also has aggregation posts sharing interesting stuff they found.
Also NeoCities has an explore feature and it's fun just looking at people's cool websites.
LTM’s great but they only have like one article this year so far, so I wouldn’t call it a best publication of 2024.
Fair enough, I just came back after not checking it for a while so there was a backlog of stuff to catch up on
That makes sense, and I guess there’s probably some old stuff I could go through.
I want to like low tech mag but I find myself frequently going "oh come the fuck onnnn"
See also: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/11/what-if-we-replace-guns-and-bullets-with-bows-and-arrows/
How much time do you want to spend on the internet? If that’s all your able to do for certain times I’d just say mostly here and marxists.org. Once I get another ereader I’ll try to be on here even less.
Atomic Rockets is an incredible Web 1.0 style website about all aspects of space travel
Tricontinental
Have a read of this - https://thetricontinental.org/studies-on-contemporary-dilemmas-4-hyper-imperialism/
