My personal criteria of 'good' are: little-to-no politics (or at least no strong ideological bent), little-to-no sexuality/LGBT/feminist discussion (preferably none at all), availability of a web/Linux version (no smartphone-only services for I do not own a smartphone). Typical discussion topics should include at least one of the following: mathematics, philosophy, tech, or tangential stuff. No dating programs or sites, please.

I have already looked at fediverse, and so far pleroma, friendica and diaspora seem like the best available choices, but I have not yet found any interesting community I would like to chat with.

If you've heard (or even better - participate in) a 'good' fediverse instance or other social network, please contact me at aXdha3VyYS50b21va29AZGlzcm9vdC5vcmc= (base64-decode this string) XMPP or email.

Some notes from the link above (not word-by-word, though):

Mathematics is about finding patterns in the world and then reasoning about those patterns. Then, after we see enough patterns, we can find patterns inside those patterns, and then after that we find patterns inside those meta-patterns and so on.

Geometry: patterns we find when drawing stuff on a surface.
Arithmetic: patterns we find when combining countable things.
Regular algebra: patterns we find in arithmetic (in patterns that we find when combining countable things).
Abstract algebra: patterns we find in regular algebra, geometry, and so on.
Category theory: patterns we find across broad swaths of otherwise disconnected parts of mathematics.

Category theory helps us identify shared patterns across different fields of mathematics.

That is needed to be able to transmute a problem about graphs into a problem about complex variables.

With category theory, to do that you can appeal to categories to show how they relate.

Category theory argues that all mathematical entities/objects are entirely determined by the patterns of relationships (morphisms) with other objects, within a given context (category).

> https://kitami.neocities.org/feed.html#8

yeah, i feel like most of the internet right now is engaging in using all of these techniques all the time (me too), possibly unconsciously, normalizing this behavior and helping the CIA n-- agents hide :^)

(wow... it seems we are actually conversing... through web sites... LIKE IN THOSE TELEGRAM DAYS OMFG!!!! also your repost/reply looks cool, maybe i'll make a similar thing sometime, for now everyone just go check that address on the top of the post)

• https://nostalgic.neocities.org/goodies/japanese.html some resources for learning Japanese, for different levels
• https://meow.sadgrl.online/websurfer/ [requires JS! and better forget about using uMatrix on this lol] (lol why does every website in "serious" section I stumble upon is 'capitalism bad')
• https://dominik.net/reviving-ye-olde-personal-home-page.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200220031406/https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/laurel-schwulst-my-website-is-a-shifting-house-next-to-a-river-of-knowledge-what-could-yours-be/ this almost convinces me birds are real (also great writeup read it pls if you haven't yet)
• https://sadgrl.online/newoldweb/manifesto_full.html
• https://postbox.garden/index.html "Perhaps this imageboard is a little different from some of the others you've visited - there is no reply button, after all. Instead, please mail your posts to our address, and we will scan and upload them when we receive them."
• https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

  >He’d not made one phone call or driven in a car or spent any money. He had never in his life sent an e-mail or even seen the Internet.

  >He engaged in zero communication with the outside world. He never snapped a photo. He did not keep a journal. His camp was undisclosed to everyone.

  ><...> he slept in the woods for a quarter century straight <...>

  >True hermits, according to Chris, do not write books, do not have friends, and do not answer questions.

  goals tbh

• http://toastytech.com/evil/tourmentie4.html "We MUST fight back! We must do something before breathing requires Internet Explorer!" thankfully, now it requires Chrome/Firefox (soon to become a copy of Chrome) instead
• https://www.navyresources.net
• https://loa2k.neocities.org
• https://kakashi.neocities.org/mayhem.html

"COINTELPRO: Techniques for Dilution, Misdirection and Control of a Internet Forum Allegedly a leaked FBI handbook on controlling internet forums. Of dubious origin, but interesting nonetheless." (taken from https://hb11f.net/links.html)

• https://todaysdate.com
• https://internetmatter.com
• https://imovies.com

• http://lain.angelic-trust.net/wired.html lain fanlisting!!
• http://www.thefanlistings.org moar fanlistings
• https://zanarkand.neocities.org/home.html awesome site! but a bit hard (intentionally?) to navigate, so i'll drop more links of its pages below
• https://zanarkand.neocities.org/aboutsmall.html
• https://zanarkand.neocities.org/summermemory.html
• https://zanarkand.neocities.org/shitpost.html
• https://saint-images.neocities.org/about.html someone's cute about page

• https://web.archive.org/web/20121207124327/http://truneet.com/ it's not much but i do like the website
• http://frideynight.com ^_^
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130811042103/http://cerealexperiments.com/wakaba/wakaba.html a cute imageboard, ded as of now of course
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130225110447/http://cerealexperiments.com/wakaba/res/956.html "I wish I could hold you all and tell you it was going to be alright. Even though we all know the veracity of that statement, it would be nice to cry with you and pretend for a little while. A shame it's never going to happen. You all seem so much nicer than normal people."

• https://everything2.com/title/semantic+web
• https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Activity.html

• https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=hikki
• https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=hikki_s_christmas
• https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/read.cgi/lounge/1589599808