There doesn't seem to be anything new and exciting going on these days.
No fads taking everyone by storm. No new technology everyone is discussing (AI is pretty meh at the moment, especially with the censorship). No new entertainment everyone has to see.
Maybe I'm out of the loop but I don't feel I am. Anyone else kinda feel this way?
There's a bit of a "settler in a new world" boom going on right now, but you'll need TOR to witness that.
So Tor is one thing that I've been wondering about. I know it's popular as a portal to the dark web, but are there actually interesting non-degenerate/non-criminal communities there? And if so, where would a person look if they were interested?
There's some good communities in there, yeah. The darknet's pretty much 4chan at the height of its good times, complete with the whole media's "very scary! full of haxxors!" headlines.
You'll need to compile your own links, though. There's pretty much no search engine that reaches this deep. On the bright(BADUM-TSS) side, hosting darknet pages is awful easy nowadays, not a single dollar spent for a neocities-style page.
So yeah, what kinda community are you looking for?
I'm honestly not really looking for a specific community. It's just a subject that I've fiddled with very lightly, and haven't really tried too hard because I've only ever known one semi-reasonable site to visit there (now offline, for good reason).
That's the core problem. there's no way to find out about anything. This is one of the newest sites I've heard about and I saw the link for it 10 years ago. Without search engines ability to navigate the internet without social connections is nonexistent.