Hacker News but for independent blogs

viermalbe

Bubbles dev here, thanks for the mention

exitnode

Very cool but I would like to be able to create an account with my mail address instead of using a Mastodon account because I am trying to avoid social media.

janaagaard

I think the links should open in the same window (like they do here on HN) instead of in a new tab/window. If I want a separate tab, I can Cmd+click and Browsers don't have the reverse option for opening in the same window.

vee-kay

Ah, this reminds me of StumbleUpon.

socalgal2

Just curious but isn't this just digg, metafilter?

ochronus

This is lovely

nathell

I’ve been perusing Bubbles increasingly often since discovering that my blog is syndicated there, a few weeks ago. It feels really refreshing compared to doomscrolling of social media, or indeed even to HN. It’s so diverse and humane. The indie blogosphere is coming to life. Kudos to the author. A great idea, splendidly executed. I hope it grows and doesn’t change much.

rsolva

Oh, great, I can log in with my GoToSocial instance to comment and vote! I will definitely add this site alongside my HN addiction :)

pchm

I submitted a somewhat similar project yesterday to Show HN (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring, with zero community features. I call it bubblewire. Funny. I had no prior knowledge of bubbles.town until seeing it here now. bubbles.town looks nice! Hope to see more projects that aim to bring back the good old web. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552985

ozgrakkurt

This is it!! I can finally leave reading comments on hn or get bamboozeled by ai posts masquerading as something technical

whereistejas

This reminds me of Kagi's Small Web: https://kagi.com/smallweb/ or https://kagi.com/smallweb/river

RobotToaster

It would be great if this supported federation as a Lemmy community, given that Lemmy already has votes.

bovermyer

The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y. https://bubbles.town/briefing

HardwareLust

Please make AI a category.

atulvi

> "5011 independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you." That line is so claude.

zingar

Is this “hacker news”-esque in terms of being a social bookmarking site? I don’t see much by way of the same topics, and don’t think the difference is only whether it’s Indy or not.

agup792

I like it, but shouldn't this be part of "Show HN"?

1317

looks quite nice, but i always find myself disappointed that all the content on the "small web" is just posting /about/ the small web, rather than doing anything interesting on it 14/30 of the posts on the top page are just about making websites

TacticalCoder

Holy smoke the bullshit I see upvoted on that site frontpage mate! Fitness is "white supremacism"!? A few lines from that "the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle" frontpage articles (that title, already): > I cannot help but see that “Pinterest clean girl fitness and fruit bowl gua sha yoga mat pilates in the forest” content as covert white supremacy and eugenicist ideals Let people live ffs! > it’s always white or racially ambiguous people, "Racially ambiuous"? For a start it's an attempt at manipulating thought by manipulating speech. Then it's deeply racist: it's wanting to categorize people by race, to hate on them. In this case putting, for example, latino-whites (I'm not saying it, TFA is) or half-asian/half-white (like my nephew) as "white" to hate on whites. It has a name: racism. Anti-white racism, but racism (usually double-down by explaining that it's impossible to be racists towards whites for anti-white racism is impossible). And at the gym and among my friends, I see a lot of these "yoga girls" are with... asian genes. Same online among the fitness "influencers" with many subscribers. There are also a huge lot of incredibly muscular and fit... Blacks. What a surprise: blacks ain't white. How can someone be filled with so much hate (including, potentially, hate for its own race) to write such hateful texts? Despicable author, writing hateful words, to please people with really dark hearts.