Recommended Links & Reading

Culture and community

Anonymous place to leave a message and reply to others. Low-stress.

/ck/ - Food & Cooking | https://boards.4chan.org/ck/catalog

A fun place to talk about food and drinks. Other recommended boards: /g/. Much of the chan culture has been ravaged by explicit material and psyops.

reddit | https://old.reddit.com/tron

Niche hobbies are isolated from redditry as a whole and can be entertaining to browse. Recommended subs: /r/spore, /r/tron, /r/pokemonromhacks, /r/consoom, /r/soulseek, /r/4chan.

Jonathan Pageu | https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanPageauClips

Important thinker and explainer of symbolism, stories and culture.

lukesmith.xyz | https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/

Linguist and internet personality.

Hobbies

San Pedro Mastery | https://www.youtube.com/@sanpedromastery6262

Learn to grow San Pedro, a special cactus from around Peru.

Misplant | https://misplant.net/

The cheapest place to buy viable San Pedro cactus seeds. I like the mixed/variety options to get lots of unique genetics and mutations.

Tools and software

landchad.net | https://landchad.net/

Create your own website and host it from a VPS, from scratch! The only nitpick I have is that you should use Porkbun instead of Epik for whois domain name protection, so you don’t get spammed like crazy. I am using frantech for my VM instead of Vulture, but that’s personal preference.

tuta | https://tuta.com/

Seemingly one of the few ACTUALLY private email hosts (compare to Proton)

lucida | https://lucida.to/

The best tool for downloading lossless music from streaming services. I recommend Tidal as a source.

Squoosh | https://squoosh.app/

A very effective tool for compressing images.

litterbox | https://litterbox.catbox.moe/

The easiest way to send someone a file over the internet.

imgbb | https://imgbb.com/

Imgur sucks bad. This is better, and you can get direct links to the images.