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  • Ibbit.at - RSS feed communities

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  • Never understood the reason for RSS bots and communities like this when there are already a ton of services and rss readers that do this already. This just makes Lemmy more spammy since the posts in these communities get federated in every instance. It also pollutes Lemmy search results, making it harder for people who want to find real discussions.

  • FediverseSlander, a pointless drama comm for kvetching about when there are blatant lies told about other users on the Fediverse. Come with receipts or not at all!

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  • Isn't there already a comm called Drama? I'd just check it out to be nosy tbh

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  • This is so true. It costs more money for the server power required for something like that to be pulled off.

    There's a comment in this thread going all crazy complaining about it being costly to host anything on the protocol to stop Bluesky from dominating it and everything. But im like "uhh yeah, servers and storage costs money".

    It's just so weird how everyone thinks hosting popular sites should be free.

  • Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business

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  • Right, and what's even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they're bots posing as people.

    That's arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.

    But they'll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.

    "Our bad bots good, your good bots bad". What a crazy world we live in.

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  • Yeah my car is about 13 years old. Still has CD player. Will drive it until I die.

  • Is there an open source blogging platform like Medium or Substack I could publish to without self-hosting?

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  • Hmm I was gonna suggest Mastodon. I always thought it allowed long-form writing similar to blog posts.

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  • Not interested in the short-video concept. But I like the name, though. Short, sweet, doesn't sound too "techy", not too complicated to pronounce or spell.

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  • How do ye find new music?

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  • GitHub - sv1sjp/lemmy-rss-pybot: Lemmy RSS PyBot is a powerful Python bot that reads RSS feeds and posts new articles to your favorite Lemmy communities.

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  • Didn't someone create this same thing a few weeks ago? 🤔

  • Why do two lines of text ignore spacing unless more than one line is between them and how to not make it happen?

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  • For anyone who cares, you can get this same behavior of a normal line break by holding shift while pressing enter as well.

  • product_reviews

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  • Wow what a great community idea! As more product reviews are added, it would make Lemmy more indexable to search engines as well.

  • How Lemmy could interop with Mastodon, as imagined in Frontpage + Bluesky

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  • You can reply and interact on platforms from an RSS reader. All an RSS feed is is a list of links. When you click them, you go directly to the platform. When using on a mobile device, RSS readers will even open the app for you to reply or interact with posts.

    The fediverse will never replace RSS feeds. They serve a totally different purpose.

  • How Lemmy could interop with Mastodon, as imagined in Frontpage + Bluesky

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  • That sort of aggregating would make more sense in an RSS reader. RSS feeds are exactly for that purpose.

    But a platform trying to interop from an infinite number of unrelated platforms just seems odd.

  • How Lemmy could interop with Mastodon, as imagined in Frontpage + Bluesky

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  • Don't think this opinion is unpopular at all. It makes sense for platforms that are similar to interop.

    Hypothetically like Youtube interop with Peertube (video platforms) or Instagram interop with Pixelfed (photos). Or Threads, Reddit and Lemmy (forums). And Mastodon and Twitter (sorry, but just making a point here 😁)

    But yeah, see no reason for interop between platforms with completely different purposes.

  • Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers?

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  • Damn. This needs to be a blog article and saved somewhere! No need to apologize. You've done a great job explaining a very technical topic in a simple and relatable way.

  • Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable

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  • That level of feed curation will appeal more to the masses, yeah. Just no one has started an instance like that yet. Although you seem like the perfect person, based on your analysis and responses. 😉

    Bluesky is closer to what you're describing. The platform is more centralized and the feeds are more curated for the masses.

  • Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable

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  • Very true. But that's what we can create whole instances for: to be the site you think will attract the users you want. With curated feeds, less pervy content, whatever.

    There's nothing stopping anyone from starting a whole new world they want to see in the fediverse. Lemmy and other fedi apps are built like this for that very purpose.

  • Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable

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  • A centralized frontend and a decentralized backend seems great in theory, but I'm not quite sure that's even possible without some one or some group owning the centralized frontend. And if one single entity controls the frontend, it defeats the purpose of decentralization. We want to avoid any one person or group owning the flow of our communication.