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  • Ah, I love a good classic curated-authors aggregator. The days of yore have returned! Gives me hope. And thank you for having posts open to HN, that’s a brilliant way to augment rather than displace.

    On first glance, the first several posts are more interesting than HN; that’s a good sign. But there’s no hide link to mask the AI posts I don’t care about; perhaps one appears after signup?

    But. HN’s single-post mute method is treading water at best versus the flood, and with the sixth post on the homepage being outsourced-to-AI, clearly that will persist at Bubbles. Can I mute specific blogs that are just repeatedly posting ‘I subcontracted my project to AI and am now taking credit as if I did the work myself’ on this site? If so, I’d give this a full week tryout immediately.

    by altairprime
  • Bubbles dev here, thanks for the mention
    by viermalbe
  • The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y.

    https://bubbles.town/briefing

    by bovermyer
  • Very exciting! And I like the fediverse integration too.

    > $N independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you.

    This sounds a bit AI-generated (i.e. bland). I would just remove that line entirely from the UI.

    > top / new / hot / my

    this is a non-parallel construction[1], "my" sounds weird here to an english speaker. These can all be read as adjuncts if you change it to "mine".

    [1] https://www.grammar.com/nonparallel-construction

    by throwawayk7h
  • I think the links should open in the same window (like they do here on HN) instead of in a new tab/window. If I want a separate tab, I can Cmd+click and Browsers don't have the reverse option for opening in the same window.
    by janaagaard
  • Very cool but I would like to be able to create an account with my mail address instead of using a Mastodon account because I am trying to avoid social media.
    by exitnode
  • This reminds me of Kagi's Small Web: https://kagi.com/smallweb/ or https://kagi.com/smallweb/river
    by whereistejas
  • I’ve been perusing Bubbles increasingly often since discovering that my blog is syndicated there, a few weeks ago.

    It feels really refreshing compared to doomscrolling of social media, or indeed even to HN. It’s so diverse and humane. The indie blogosphere is coming to life.

    Kudos to the author. A great idea, splendidly executed. I hope it grows and doesn’t change much.

    by nathell

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