Comment by seanw444

Small, indie internet hasn't gone away completely. There's still some discovering to be had. Not everything is a corporatized web service. One tool to help you browse the fun version of the internet in 2022 is Wiby [0]. It's been mentioned on HN many times, and I thought it was cool, but I never took the time to play around with it. Until a couple days ago.

Sometimes it gives you outdated results from the 90s, or the 2000s, but that's okay. It's fun to explore relics. Sometimes it gives you a site you expect to be from 2003, but it was actually just put up last year from another curious hacker. Those are fun to pop in on. That happened to me yesterday, and I just left him an email appreciating his website, and his various projects he posted on there, to hopefully spark a fun conversation.

The modern web is bland and boring. I'll agree to that. I don't like it much. But not all hope is lost. There are plenty of us that want the old internet, that some are building services and networks to revive that. Not all hope is lost.

[0]: https://wiby.me