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Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by viermalbe »

altairprime wrote: post #127

Ah, I love a good classic curated-authors aggregator. The days of yore have returned! Gives me hope. And thank you for having posts open to HN, that’s a brilliant way to augment rather than displace. On first glance, the first several posts are more interesting than HN; that’s a good sign. But there’s no hide link to mask the AI posts I don’t care about; perhaps one appears after signup? But. HN’s single-post mute me…

Hide button appears after sign-in. You can eather hide individual posts or specific blogs.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by sph »

> independent blogs

> looks inside

> american politics and culture war

I guess my choice is Hacker News with its AI obsession, or just abandoning the internet. There is no escaping the shit that has infected the rest of social media

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by ykonstant »

woodpanel wrote: post #167
nathell wrote: post #29

I’ve been perusing Bubbles increasingly often since discovering that my blog is syndicated there, a few weeks ago. It feels really refreshing compared to doomscrolling of social media, or indeed even to HN. It’s so diverse and humane. The indie blogosphere is coming to life. Kudos to the author. A great idea, splendidly executed. I hope it grows and doesn’t change much.

> it’s so diverse and humane Opened the page, first entry: „white supremacist dogwhistle“ One can’t make this much diversity and humaneness up. Yes, their frontpage overall seems normal and you probably meant well, but that this is their first entry is just hilarious.

Hmmm... very disappointing that when I unchecked "politics" in Filter, that post remained in the list.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by ykonstant »

exitnode wrote: post #27
AbuAssar wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curios why you are avoiding social media?

Mostly because the "damn this is interesting" to "i don't care what you ate yesterday" ratio is not good enough to spend my time on it. These days I am much more enjoying exploring gopher holes, reading and writing blog posts. For realtime communications, I prefer IRC. For me, social media sits in between chatting and publishing content and is therefore neither fish nor fowl.

> For realtime communications, I prefer IRC.

How on earth do you get people to talk in IRC? Am I missing something? Almost every channel I have joined is dead silent, and any time I tried starting a conversation I felt like I was asking Lebowski for my money.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by ykonstant »

bookofjoe wrote: post #130
bookofjoe wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

viermalbe: Done! Thank you.

Here is the response from Bubbles: From: Benjamin Behnke Date: June 17, 2026 at 12:32:25 PM EDT To: josephstirt@gmail.com Subject: Re: I am submitting my blog for your consideration: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/ Hi Joseph, Thanks for reaching out. Your post frequency is too high to be listed on Bubbles. You are publishing 3 articles per day. To quote from the criteria listed in the FAQ: Moderate pace. Not more th…

Oh my.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by DeusExMachina »

kbelder wrote: post #186
TacticalCoder wrote: post #83

Holy smoke the bullshit I see upvoted on that site frontpage mate! Fitness is "white supremacism"!? A few lines from that "the girly wellness aesthetic as a white supremacist dog whistle" frontpage articles (that title, already): > I cannot help but see that “Pinterest clean girl fitness and fruit bowl gua sha yoga mat pilates in the forest” content as covert white supremacy and eugenicist ideals Let people live ffs!…

The specific topic of that blog post aside, any aggregation of 'indy' and 'small' content producers is going to lean kind of weird. Maybe left, maybe right, hopefully a combination of both, but it's going to have all sorts of crazy posts like that, all sorts of nutty niches. That's at least interesting, in an old-school-internet kind of way. Hopefully it doesn't get captured by one clique or another.

> Hopefully it doesn't get captured by one clique or another.

Given that it's the most-voted post, it looks like it already happened.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by account42 »

zenoprax wrote: post #125
mindtricks wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many comments debating the philosophy around this. I like it when these type of sites open a new tab for me. Is there a way to just code in a toggle between the two link opening types?

Middle-click a link to open a new tab. I can't force a link to open in the same window but I can with new tabs. Sometimes it's easier to follow a link, have a look, and then go back without jumping around tabs.

If only mouse manufacturers would use middle click buttons that are designed for more than occasional use.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by bookofjoe »

krapp wrote: post #174
bookofjoe wrote: post #110

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I agree, that would be a good compromise and I would do it in a heartbeat, but that's NOT the procedure. More is required: >Participating >You log in with a Fediverse account (Mastodon, Pixelfed, GoToSocial, and others). If you don't have one, mastodon.social is free and takes two minutes. For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters. Too bad. A single email WOULD be great, as you…

>For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters. You can literally sign up for a Mastodon account on mastodon.social or most other instances through the web like any other website. It's no more difficult than a Reddit account.

2 things:

1) Neither I nor most non-techies have a clue what an "instance" is.

2) Reddit banned me years ago for no reason I could think of.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by dredmorbius »

Schiendelman wrote: post #200
dredmorbius wrote: post #169

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So, question: is AppleID based on OAuth? And yeah, I'm underinformed on these, though I'll stand by at least some of my concerns applying. Amongst the problems of adding a megacorp's identification protocols is that those have a strong tendency to embrace, extend, and extinguish ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... >). See what's happened to email, RCS messaging, and for that matter, onli…

But Mastodon doesn't solve the stated goal by the service of why they want you to have a login. ;)

I asked a specific question, per your request.

You've ignored it.

As for the stated reasons for utilising Mastodon as a sign-on service, Bubbles seems to share my views:

Why Fediverse and not email/password login?

We don't want to manage accounts. No passwords to store, no emails to verify, no spam accounts to moderate. The Fediverse handles identity for us, and no single company controls it.

It's difficult to tell what you're hinting at so long as you're not being explicit, but if your concern is that Mastodon accounts permit multiple votes per individual, yes, that would be an issue. However there are few systems which afford a hard guarantee against that (though many might increase costs), and there are other ways of identifying coordinated or fraudulent voting patterns (talk with the HN mods about that some time, or any collaborative-filtering / collective-voting based discussion platform).

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