[MrThoughtful]

From my perspective, the web is fine from a technological standpoint.

Anybody can easily put text, images, video, audio online.

Finding something that is interesting is the hard part for me.

I would like to see examples of individuals putting out interesting content.

I mean apart from entertainment. Not stuff that is just funny or beautiful or thrilling.

Is there any blogger, tweeter, activitipubber, blueskyer, nostrerer or whatever out there, where you guys think "Damn what they are doing is cool and interesting. I learn something from it for my life. I can't wait for the next update!"?

[hggigg]

I'm not sure that content exists any more in any reasonable quantity. Occasionally a video will pop out which is interesting from someone but generally it's all below average. The attention dynamics have focused all content onto retaining viewers and reinforcement metrics around that. This normalised everything into mediocrity and delivering longer content with no meat.

The only thing notable left in my mind which I await with interest is Ken Shirriff's blog: http://www.righto.com ... oh and Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com

[082349872349872]

just look for people who don't care about viewer retention?

I've been having good luck with RSS and https://search.marginalia.nu

[beej71]

I also make heavy use of RSS. That's how I find basically everything I read and view.

[riffraff]

I feel a lot of content creators moved to videos or podcasts, I think cause that's easier to monetizes, but there seems to be _a lot_ of cool and interesting things being put on the web these days.

E.g. I recently listened to a really interesting podcast about the indoeuropeans "invasion" of Europe.

I agree it's somewhat harder to find good stuff among the chaff, but it's not like it's not out there.

[psjs]

Do you have a link to that podcast?

[riffraff]

this one https://open.spotify.com/show/6QrdBI77Kwg5rFjQwaeByQ

it's in italian tho

[fragmede]

It's a bit lazy of me, but let others submit links to each update to a website, and then another group of users up vote the content, and then I use that website to find such content. I could curate such content myself, but I would still need some sort of an algorithm to surface the truly quality content from the morass of updates.