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Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

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Post by Timwi »

ykonstant wrote: post #39
lordofgibbons wrote: post #37

Many 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…

I have the exact same issue. I'm in a ton of Discord servers but have never found a way to hold a conversation like I used to on IRC in the 2000s. I also assumed that I must be the problem, but now I'm not sure anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

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Post by ykonstant »

akoster wrote: post #20
rubenvanwyk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't know about Tildes, seems interesting.

They are part of the "smolnet" if I am using that terminology correctly (including the Gemini protocol https://geminiprotocol.net/ ). Other sites I will browse or lurk include, Lemmy (join-lemmy.org) Reddit alternative, Mastodon, BlueSky, SDF.org 's IRC, Matrix, some Telegram communities, lobste.rs, HN and ideally IRL at 2600 meetings https://www.2600.com/meetings , conferences, Linux User Groups (LUGs) etc. I still…

Can pidgin be configured to work with all of those messengers?

Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

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Post by mdp2021 »

elric wrote: post #13

What 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.

> What do you mean when you say

Can I offer a perspective you can add to the interpretations?

Apart from the staggeringly low "effort" you will find in it, and behaviours that in proper societies will have the offender's skull broken, it is (was?) a place you surely would visit were you for some reason interested in groups like "the budding party of those convinced of some personally held stance and visiting the premises to just shout that their guts are right, to woo the likeminded and boo the onlookers".

Being that "ideological hooliganism with the pre-Popperian tint of 'To the man with a hammer everything looks like a nail'" bestial, of a widespread bestiality, that would be "mainstream".

(Of course being it made of chambers there can - and will - be exceptions, but that is the environment which allowed that general culture on which to possibly build exceptions.)

Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

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Post by ryu2k2 »

SeanAnderson wrote: post #17

A little bit on TwitchTV, a little bit on Discord, and a little on Reddit, but, honestly, I feel pretty lonely on the Internet these days. I've been on Reddit for over 15 years and yeah, it feels quite different than it did early on. I can't really stand browsing r/all or r/popular at all. I miss the days of having 255 friends on AIM, trout slaps on well-populated mIRC channels, and never-ending threads on niche Ulti…

The new layout, putting attached images and videos on the index, ruined Reddit forever. I recently went there to see what thoughts people on there had on a specific subject, only to find nothing but a stream of meme and social media posts. You really can't call it a forum anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

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Post by elric »

mdp2021 wrote: post #43
elric wrote: post #13

What 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.

> What do you mean when you say Can I offer a perspective you can add to the interpretations? Apart from the staggeringly low "effort" you will find in it, and behaviours that in proper societies will have the offender's skull broken, it is (was?) a place you surely would visit were you for some reason interested in groups like "the budding party of those convinced of some personally held stance and visiting the prem…

I'm not sure what this word salad is trying to say. I've read it several times now, and I still don't get it. Your reference to "proper societies" and "broken skulls" is a bit worrysome.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

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Post by shreddit »

mnmalst wrote: post #45
shreddit wrote: post #38

I built https://hn-pm.me/ some time ago, it did not really catch on...

Would probably help if you would add an explainer somewhere. I have no idea what the site is or does.

Sure, it's actually exactly what the domain name suggests. You need an hn account to sign up* and then you can write personal messages to other (signed up) users.

*the registration process requires you to put a key into your public profile, to make sure it's your account. This key can be removed once signup is completed. There is no need of an email and i do not collect any data whatsoever.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

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Post by theshrike79 »

slau wrote: post #35
abetusk wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

FreshRSS can actually subscribe to a hosted OPML file, so you can share a curated blog list (or multiple) easily.
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