Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet?

Posted by sjperez on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:51AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Am I the only one who seems to spend 95% of my time on the same five websites? In an effort to expand my Internet horizons, I'd love to know what your "five-website Internet" looks like. Mine is:

1. New York Times 2. Ars Technica 3. Hacker News 4. IGN Movies 5. Redfin (for real estate fantasizing...)

I'm leaving out work-related websites, but with them, Gmail, Github, and Slack would be number 1, 2, and 3.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by sp332 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:53AM (#27794223)

1999: there are millions of websites all hyperlinked together

2019: there are four websites, each filled with screenshots of the other three.

https://twitter.com/badnetworker/status/1133363823728091136?... (not quite a screenshot but in the same spirit)

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by RosanaAnaDana on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:19PM (#27794439)

Reddit, Hackernews, Youtube, Craigslist, ...

Honestly, reddit sucks but there isn't really another option that is some-how hotter garbage than reddit. I really don't want to chase content around the internet, so I tend more towards the aggregators.

I also like garage sales.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by seanicus on Monday July 12, 2021 @04:03PM (#27814409)

Letterboxd, Twitter, HN (my life would be much better off without Twitter and my work productivity would be somewhat better off w/o HN).

Greatest internet quality of life increase would be if I did away with all 3 of those and just reached for a book or my e-reader when I needed to be entertained.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by _benj on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @09:32AM (#27832802)

I’ve tried reaching for a book /kindle when I needed to be entertained without success, or taking so much effort to start it that the habit hasn’t stayed.

Was there something that helped you on that? Some type of book/etc.?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by seanicus on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:10PM (#27836286)

It's hard. I love that the kindle app is on iphone and syncs w the ereader... but really the best thing is to keep the reader on my person. Kind of pushes me into the thought of "I'm lugging this thing around I had better use it." Works better with an actual book but I'm a sucker for the kindle.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by muzani on Saturday July 10, 2021 @10:36PM (#27798076)

Does Google count? If it doesn't because of external links, how would Reddit or HN count? Do people frequently hang around Ask HN or the self contained subreddits?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by sp332 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:45PM (#27804028)

Reddit and HN are popular for the communities and comments.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by softwaredoug on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:37PM (#27802898)

Reddit, hacker news, stackexchange, LinkedIn, Instagram

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by abhijat on Sunday July 11, 2021 @07:18AM (#27799965)

financial times, hacker news, reddit. Although a much larger chunk of time is spent on the first compared to next two combined.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by DerekBickerton on Monday July 12, 2021 @07:32AM (#27809226)

https://tildes.net/

https://old.reddit.com/

https://www.ghacks.net/

https://www.producthunt.com/

https://lobste.rs/

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by mikewarot on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:52PM (#27795972)

1. Hacker News 2. Reddit 3. Slashdot 4. Facebook (friends and family) 5. YouTube

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by tjalfi on Saturday July 10, 2021 @05:19PM (#27796542)

Reddit, Hacker News, Goodreads, and Amazon.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by eneltipi on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:35AM (#27807374)

https://news.ycombinator.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by quickthrower2 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:11PM (#27797729)

Reddit HN Amazon eBay gmail

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by Normille on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:56PM (#27796005)

1: Hacker News

2: Cryptocompare

3: Amazon

4: eBay

5: DPReview

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by markx2 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:31PM (#27795819)

1. Skimfeed.com

2. Metafilter.com

3. Reddit.com (a selected list of subreddits only)

4. local news site

5. Newsblur.com (because RSS is the way)

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by errantmind on Sunday July 11, 2021 @05:02PM (#27804516)

HN, Lobste.rs, Substack, Reuters, <unnameable>

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by gaws on Monday July 12, 2021 @12:54PM (#27812329)

> <unnameable>

well now you have to tell us.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by errantmind on Monday July 12, 2021 @09:45PM (#27816933)

Sadly, some sites I'll only own frequenting on a burner account

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by atatatat on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:52AM (#27820294)

Fetlife

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Re:Ask HN: What is your five-website Internet? by x14km2d on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:51PM (#27794718)

blog.fefe.de

hackaday.com

blog.adafruit.com

arstechnica.com

scripting.com

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