Corners of Internet - #1 Place to find coolest corner's of internet
www.cornersofinternet.com
No fluff, no clickbait — just hidden gems, underrated tools, indie games/ films & lot more. Discover the best corners of the internet, curated for you by Coi.

Remember when the internet felt like a giant treasure hunt instead of just… cycling through the same five apps? Yeah, me too. That’s why I started COI (Corners of Internet)—a place where I dig up weird, fun, and happy corners of the web so you don’t have to.

No algorithms. No doomscrolling. Just pure internet exploration.

If it’s cool, underrated, or a little unhinged, it goes on COI.

Check it out: www.cornersofinternet.com

Also, if you’ve got a favorite weird site, drop it below! I’m always looking for new rabbit holes to fall into.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    36·
    17 days ago

    Maybe it’s a generational thing (I’m a 50+), I don’t know, but when I see a ‘Buy me (something)’ or a ‘tip me’ first thing first on the home page even before I can get any idea of what I will find on the website I’m not likely to explore further. I thought you might want to know about that, even I may be in the minority.

    Just in case:

    • Nope, I’m not cheap. I just want to know who and why I’m supposed to be paying a coffee to (or a pizza) before I decide I want to do it, or not to do it.
    • I’m always very happy to see people trying to refocus attention toward a less corporate-owned Internet.
    • I hope it was clear it’s nothing personal, just my first reaction on visiting your page. I’ll explore it further ;)
    • hemicycle@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      12·
      17 days ago

      I totally get it, yet I contemplated that decision a lot. This is a self funded indie project, could use a lotta funding.

      But I agree, I will be removing that soon, maybe tug it into the footer or someplace. Not like it is helping me get coffee anyways :D

      Thanks for the feedback.

      • Iapar@feddit.org
        2·
        17 days ago

        Maybe a solution would be to make the donation info a toast that pops up after a time or after a certain amount of scrolling has happened.

        So people like op are not put of from the start but you also make it easy for people who want to donate.

      • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        Wait. Why could you use a lot of funding? I run websites, I don’t do adds I don’t charge and I don’t ask for money.

        That is part of what made the old internet fun.

        What is the money for?

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      17 days ago

      Earlier 40’s and I have the opposite opinion on this.

      I think the button needs to be prominent so people remember where it is if they find the site useful and now want to contribute. Building things and hosting them isn’t free and I have no objection to paying for quality content.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    14·
    17 days ago

    Some feedback: the “hi I’m coi” thing at the top? I thought it was another LLM AI thing introducing itself. I closed the tab immediately, but then double checked when I read the rest of this post.

    The social media links at the top, especially Twitter, are a negative for me. Fuck twitter and Facebook.

    The big color buttons (that are not actually buttons) interspersed with text is a choice but it feels very bad-modern to me. If you’re going for more retro pre-shit, maybe take inspiration from https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/ or friends.

    • hemicycle@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      5·
      17 days ago

      Actually I do wanna get a designer for the project in the near future when i make some money with this site and turn it very retroish… Rn i’m working with templates and preexisting codes. Yeah I know its not perfect but it will get there slowly I promise.

      Regarding the Hi I’m Coi, yes now I get how it may sound LLMish. But the idea was to kinda introduce a character called Coi who is surfing the internet and fining cool shit uk.

      Socials : i know it is kinda negative even I wanna be far away but need to get some traffic for the site. I don’t know how to work around it. Maybe when there is more awareness about the site I will remove it.

      • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        17 days ago

        Hold on to your design, don’t let some critics change it.

        I design web gui stuff a lot, and I am hyper sensitive to most designers including me, being constricted to some conventions. So I really appreciate well designed non conventional stuff, like used to be more common years ago.

        Your web stuff adds value which will go away if you conform too much

        Edit typos

        • hemicycle@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          4·
          17 days ago

          Honestly all the feedbacks are just overwhelming trying to tag them as good to haves or not.

          Thank you your comment clears up a lotta self doubt. Means a lot.

  • hansolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    17 days ago

    The internet used to feel like a treasure hunt because it wasn’t indexed well, and a large part of the surface content were pages made by oddball people letting their weirdness run wild without social limitations.

    Sure, algorithms keep most normies in a social media ecosystem, but it’s also not exactly easy for me to make a truly anonymous website about the awesome predictions I’ve made from looking at the patterns in my breakfast cereal every morning - AND just let it be. There’s pressure to promote it, crosspost it, etc. Even the fun of thought experiments posted to a GeoCities page come with risks now.

    Maybe I’m jaded and lack the youthful energy to stay up until 4:30am slapping im14amdthisisdeep stuff somewhere. Maybe everyone else that’s just slightly weird still expects to get paid for that with ads when it all used to be free and fun.

      • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        Same old story of a community-driven site resorting to ads for revenue. After feedback they started a subscription-based version called totalFark that didn’t have ads. Then they introduced ads on totalFark as well, but didn’t vet their advertisers. So some of the banner ads were running malicious code on users browsers.

        • hemicycle@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          Damn that’s crazy… Why allow ads on a subscription site what makes it okay to do that.

    • hemicycle@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      To be clear, the idea is not to be Old-School it is just to kinda bring that joy of discovery.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    1·
    17 days ago

    This seems neat.

    It’s not just the Internet, though. There are no more gatekeepers or water coolers and everything is fed on demand. Have you noticed that TV and movie events have slowed down to a trickle? Ever found a cool show on a streaming service and found that nobody is talking about it unless you go search for some community of five people who are super into it? Nobody is playing any games and talking about them unless they’re finding them through some influencer or they’re just the same four big games that have dominated the market for the better part of a decade.

    That’s not going to revert back with something like this, I’m afraid. We’ve just lost the structures that got people to share in those collective moments and I’m not sure there’s a way of bringing them back. On this side of the apocalypse, anyway, so maybe that’ll fix itself.

    • hemicycle@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      True that is why i added a section for movies (moving images) I wanna fill that up with underrated indie movie and also a section for games with unique approach to it. All that is possible to do to develop the indie creators.

  • wordcraeft@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    16 days ago

    I was curious to click on one of the sites (bread-on.earth), but the link appears to be dead. Is there a mechanism for reporting dead sites?

    • hemicycle@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      bread on earth : they are updating their site… It is a good site, where you could find everything about bread. They also had recipes of antient bread. I think they’ll be back soon.

      Maybe I will move it to draft on out site… Well the only way to report rn maybe an email. This is a one off occurrence, maybe I will think of something if more sites are going offline often.