Bubbles

I recently discovered Bubbles.Town which is something like 2004 Digg for indie blogs. It is a smaller version of Hacker News with a broader scope covering all kinds of non-tech topics. And it is a joy to browse through the links that bubble up. The thing I like most about it is that it seems to broaden the view I get on the web. I have my feed reader with a feed that has evolved over the past 20+ years and been carried from Bloglines to Google Reader to Feedly to Inoreader and now to NetNewsWire. Every now and then a new blog gets added or removed but it is mostly the same people I have grown fond of over the years. Bubbles seems to broaden that view a little more. There are two things that I like most about it: Because it is still a small site it biases to smaller blogs. The posts are often shorter, less polished (a delightful absence of AI slop – I’m looking at you, LinkedIn), very little click bait and a high degree of randomness on topics. Clicking through the links reveals a lot…