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  • 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.

  • How do you view your role in public ethics as a developer?

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  • Ok you've peaked my curiosity.

    but with large potential consequences.

    What are some of the consequences you see?

  • Stack Overflow Survey: 80% of developers are unhappy

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  • Not surprised that Tech debt is among the biggest. There seems to be a lot of complexity added to apps unnecessarily these days-especially web based apps. It's almost like companies purposefully force their engineers into creating web apps so bloated that users have no choice but to use the native app version.

  • How do you decide on which news sources to read?

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  • AllSides is a good one too

  • 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.

  • Session issues; constant re-login required?

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  • Great research! Thank you for at least looking into this, as I've been having this issue for months now. Just to add to your information, I'd probably rule out Ublock origin. Because it happens even when using Firefox on my Android, which doesn't have any plugins installed. I've even tried using Brave on my Android and still get the same behavior. Refreshing fixes it and logs me in automatically (sometimes). Other times I have to actually log in again. Hope this helps!

  • Is there such a thing as a bullshit-free news agency?

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  • Sounds like you might just want the news without fluff.

    I use AllSides as my main news source for federal news. Give them a try. The writing is succinct and gets straight to the point.

    They give you news of the day in small chunks separated by topic. Each topic has a quick context, run down of what's happening, and (my favorite) how the left right and center outlets are all covering it.

    They also have an RSS feed (provided by Open RSS because they dont serve their own feeds. https://openrss.org/allsides.com