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Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#32Private Slack, WhatsApp and Signal groups are the most valuable to me.
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#35Mastodon and RSS feeds. I’m also trying to write more long form stuff, and that definitely helps keeping conversations going. I check out Lemmy maybe once or twice a month.
What RSS feeds do you subscribe to?
A friend of mine mentioned RSS a few months ago. I asked him for a copy of his feed, and he gracefully sent me a curated list of about 30-50 blogs, job boards, and news.
I’ve removed some and added some. Anytime I come across an interesting blog post (here, Lemmy, Masto) I add the blog’s feed to my RSS reader. If the long-term content doesn’t match my taste I remove it unceremoniously.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#36I don’t. This my go to.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#37Many discord servers, each focusing on different interests. The communities are small enough that you can have actual conversations without a lot of noise. I just wish these communities were on a less centralized and less closed platform.
Reddit used to be great, but these days, it's mostly rage bait and state actors astroturfing all of the popular subreddits.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#38I built https://hn-pm.me/ some time ago, it did not really catch on...
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#39Many discord servers, each focusing on different interests. The communities are small enough that you can have actual conversations without a lot of noise. I just wish these communities were on a less centralized and less closed platform. Reddit used to be great, but these days, it's mostly rage bait and state actors astroturfing all of the popular subreddits.
I joined several discords, some of significant size, but I just cannot understand how to start/join a conversation. I just see silence or some random Q&A that dies within a few rounds of back and forth.
I really wanna do some goofy chatting and socialize online in real time, but I must be doing it wrong because it seems like nobody's there. I also tried IRC (went in for the first time in 20 years?!), same story there. Probably I am the problem, but any suggestions?
Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?
#40What do you mean when you say that Reddit is too mainstream for you? I mostly read RSS feeds and hang out on Mastodon. I don't really chat anywhere anymore, not since I left the last IRC channel years ago. I occasionally miss it, but haven't found anything that comes close enough.
Not sure if this is what they meant, but Reddit is just Facebook for younger people. The outrage is the same, the click bait, the like hunting and the general attention seeking. There's some good stuff, absolutely, but the same is true for Facebook. If you're not part of a sub-culture, and a narrow one at that, then Reddit content is pretty much your run of the mill click bait. Just like with Facebook, I think that t…
I don't know; reddit still has long-term, threaded discussions without character limit and a forum-like interface if you are using ~sane reddit~ sorry, I mean "old reddit". That is quite different from facebook, niche groups or not.