Hacker News but for independent blogs
Points and comments are a snapshot, not live.
Bubbles aggregates independent blog posts on a single ranked front page.
Bubbles.town curates 5,037 independent personal blogs into one front page, ranked by votes and freshness. The homepage displays post titles, sources, age, comment counts, and upvote buttons. Posts range across tech, culture, life, politics, writing, and gaming. Examples include essays on wellness aesthetics, git ignore methods, Linux switching, photo blogging, ticker tape history, FileZilla, flag ratios, skill rot, and more. The site also features a "Town Square" chat component and has been mentioned by The Verge.
What commenters are saying
The thread is broadly positive. The developer confirms Bubbles is built from scratch with Go and sqlite on a Hetzner machine, not a reskin. Some users want email-based signup instead of requiring a Fediverse account; the developer notes Mastodon authentication is used. Several discuss preferring links to open in the same tab versus a new tab, with many advocating for user choice. A user asks about blog inclusion criteria, directed to the FAQ. There is interest in Lemmy federation and RSS feeds for briefings.