alt Hacker NewsSoranews24 is one of the best websites on the internet! So weird and looks like spam but it's not. This Dododo Land is so weird. Seems like Meow Wolf or Museum of Ice Cream but featuring little things that bother people instead of creative fiction or photo ops.
fta: "'dododo' is the kanji character for 'anger' (怒) written three times in a row".
Do other countries have websites like this covering them?
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I don't think SoraNews24/RocketNews24 isn't that interesting in itself, but I'd be interested to know how these are popular as a phenomenon - there have been tons of these small shop couchsurfing news blogs on Japanese WWW since mid-2000s. It was obviously trivial to find a few college kids that could Google random stuffs and write up blogs that collect enough AdSense revenues, in Japan and in online ja-JP sphere.
Is it another one of those 7-11 sandwiches, or do there exist like, the webring and jump cushions and individual blogs and hosting colocations and all that infrastructure for each of all major languages? I suspect Chinese WWW might have some, but what about e.g. Indonesia, major Western European languages, LATAM as a region, or, most importantly, en-US?
I hear about meow wolf all the time and I seem to be the only person in the world who thought it was an underwhelming cash grab that is beaten by a half dozen events a year in nearly every major city in the US. Am I just missing some huge piece of it?
Not a perfect match but I instantly thought of ianVisits for London stuff. It's a similar vibe to this but is mostly transport-related: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/
We have legorafi.fr in France which is a reference. To the point that some foreign papers quoted it :)
Some articles:
- resolve your attention problems in 328 steps
- according to studies, humans use only 10% of their smartphone
There are others that are very good but to close to France to be understandable abroad
My other hangout is cracked.com. Another corner with really niche and weird content.
Is this another one of those weird bot posts I've been hearing about? 3 paragraphs, low-content but apparently interesting, ~50 points new account?
@dang what's HN's position here, I feel like my paranoia is going to ruin the shreds of authenticity that underpinned real engagement on this site. It's a giga-eternal September, and idk how one can moderate this in a way that earns trust and buyin from the humans among us (I swear I'm a human, look no third paragraph).