Finding the Small Web in a Loud Internet

My daily reading is deliberate at this point. I’ve settled on a small set of tools that surface the kind of internet I actually want, rather than whatever’s performing well today. Hacker News I use hcker.news rather than the main site, mainly to filter down to “smallweb” content and sort chronologically by submission time rather than by rank. The default HN front page surfaces whatever has caught fire in the last few hours, which can feel samey. Sorting by submission time means I catch things before they’ve either exploded or quietly disappeared. The content I’m actually after is build logs, DIY projects, and obscure deep dives, the kind of thing where someone has spent months on a strange project and written it all up. The discussion threads are often as good as the links themselves. Reddit On mobile I use RedReader, mostly anonymously. It’s fast, strips away the cruft, and doesn’t nag me to sign in every five minutes. On desktop I use old.reddit.com to read threads and occasionally…