Today as I was searching for interesting communities to join I suddenly became saddened as I remembered this app that I spent hours using. StumbleUpon. When it was young it was the app I spent the most time on waiting between classes. just finding something interesting was always worth it.
The app is not what it used to be. I went to stumbleupon.com just to see and its all corporate. I’m sad because I kinda want StumbleUpon for the fediverse. Maybe I don’t want to search for hours looking for communities to join, mastodon users to follow, or pixelfed instances that may have great photos. Maybe I want StumbleUpon for the Fediverse. I could connect it with any federated account, stumble upon something interesting, and subscribe. How could we go about building that?
What are your thoughts?
Remember, most people there are passively consuming content and don’t care. It’s when the content dries up or becomes boring they will leave. The problem then will be that they go to Instagram, TikTok or Twitter instead of Lemmy.