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MyNameIsFred

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  • We Live in the Rarest Type of Planetary System

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  • How do you find RSS feeds that you're interested in?

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  • I use feedspot, but similar results.

    Like these sites, i sub to all the things and just prune out junk.

  • How do you find RSS feeds that you're interested in?

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  • Feedly was my favorite for a while. But they have had their bumps. That said they do more than just RSS and can add feeds that dont support RSS.

    I moved to self-hosting my feed aggregator sometime back. For that I use Miniflux.

  • Astronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lens

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  • Yeah its really cool. I also used to post some of the stuff i would see in feeds in reddit, mostly would get buried.

    I also edited the post and added some more coverage that had some better explanations.

  • Reddit CEO defiant as moderator strike shutters thousands of forums: 'We made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on'

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  • Wasnt swartz only there for a brief time after a merger and only really on the masthead. It was mostly Huffman and Alexis that started it in their college dorm. Alexis was def more the vision/community guy and Steve more the coder iirc.

  • My opinion on Beehaw registration process. What do you all think?

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  • I didn’t think it was too bad. Like others I wrote 3 sentences or so basically just answering the questions honestly. I was approved fairly quickly.

  • A white supremacist took MDMA for a study, and it snapped him out of his beliefs: 'Why am I doing this?'

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  • Interesting. I took MDMA is in college once. It wasnt a game changer or anything.

    Now LSD. The one time I did that, it definitely altered the "lens" i viewed the world in, for the better. I did this with some friends to make sure it wasnt a bad trip, but mostly in solitude. Im not sure that it really changes much of my political leanings, but i did have some deep introspective thought and it did affect how I viewed others and the world, and generally in a more empathetic way.

    That said, after having some friends that arguably abused it, i avoided too many more further interactions with it which was good. Because around the 4th time I did it, i was in a bad way, and had an awful trip, which turned me off to most mind altering substances for a while.

  • Starfield Official Gameplay Trailer

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  • I hear Frontier is figuring new ways to make you grind for materials in Elite Dangerous...

  • What if Reddit reverts it's changes?

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  • Nice. Thanks!

  • What if Reddit reverts it's changes?

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  • Agree those two changes would be good. Along with making the ability to add topic sorting or community grouping where you can view say, all “technology” communities in a url. Or all Linux communities across instances in a big group etc.

  • What if Reddit reverts it's changes?

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  • Right. Agree. But searching for communities, especially those outside your instance can be wonky. Finding communities and grouping like communities across instances is difficult as it currently sits. And it takes a bit of understanding how to search to find things.

  • What if Reddit reverts it's changes?

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  • Yeah. Best I can describe it is its like email for message boards.

    But I can see definate needs for better community discovery, group like communities from other instances, making reccomendations for similar communities etc.

  • What if Reddit reverts it's changes?

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  • I dont see most less technical users moving at all without some more UI maturity. The whole federated services thing is just a bit too abstract a concept for most. And right now its difficult to find/join communities outside your instance.

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  • From my perspective as a user that has been on reddit for a while, its been on a downhill slide for a long time now. The moderation mechanisms there are really becoming the downfall. Its like police or politicians, the position attracts the very qualities that would make you unsuitable for such authority.

    I am also unsure what most of the 2000+ employees do, because by all accounts they are generally unresponsive to both users and mods alike when they reach out. This is as true now with the API stuff and small devs not getting traction to work with them, as it has been in the past and was a major reason there was backlash when Victoria was let go.

  • Getting the most out of fediverse communities

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  • My hope is they add multi communities of some sort. Where you can

    A. Group like communities together and browse them by topic, similar to multireddits

    And/or

    B. Certain communities can join forces and automatically cross-post with each other to reduce duplication and fragmentation while still splitting load

    How technically feasible the latter is, I don’t know. But it would be cool. I’m still prettt new to this type of setup.

  • Netflix sees jump in subs as it begins to curb password sharing in US, says report

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  • As per most tech things, though, I don’t think there’s a good end-to-end guide out there (lots of piecemeal ones, though) and having good research skills and being able to fill in the gaps in guides yourself is pretty important.

    Yeah for sure. For most non-techy folks using one of the arrs setups or even plex has a pretty steep curve.

    It’s why Netflix will continue to make subs.

    I think what’s missing from this article is they have had a show or two lately that have been solid. Ie: the Diplomat. And that will drive up subs. But not sure it has the staying power. Folks will flip back to something else when another service drops something good.

  • Netflix sees jump in subs as it begins to curb password sharing in US, says report

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  • What they don’t explain is that you need two accounts (or more) for these to work.

    A Usenet account.

    An indexer account that is basically a search engine.

    You also need a download app like nzbget. And ofc you setup an account on that and plug it into sonarr.

    And an account for the nas or storage if it’s not local.

    Sonarr searches the index, finds the files, talks to nzbget and says “download that shit for me and put it together”. Nzbget uses the Usenet account to fetch the stuff, assembles the parts and tells sonarr I’m done. Sonarr then renames it and puts it on your nas.

    It’s admittedly fairly abstract, even for someone seasoned in systems admin work.

  • In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout

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  • agree on that 100%

  • RedReader, Reddit client for Android, granted non-commercial accessibility exemption

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  • Agree. Hoping development makes searching for communities across instances significantly easier.