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  • When smartphones were new, I started dating a girl who would roll over in bed first thing in the morning, pick up her phone, and start scrolling. I thought it was incredibly weird. Why not life? Why computer? Now, I do the same thing, and it’s normal. Or rather it was until a couple of weeks ago.

    The scary thing is that I’ll start to get antsy as the one-hour mark comes near. I’ll keep checking the clock for when I can pick it up and get my stimulation. So far it is working most days, though, and it feels like it improves the rest of the day for me.




  • 1 I have never seen. The backend was incredibly buggy in 0.18 and early 0.19 versions. Maybe the frontend was too? I’ve only been running it for a short time but I’ve never seen it crash yet.

    2/3/4 I count as polish things. Yes, they’re not ideal. How is a rewrite into a new core supposed to make that better, as opposed to throwing the maturity level back to square 1 and introducing a whole plethora of new little polish things to worry about in addition to those?

    I’m not saying you’re wrong. Maybe about 1 in the present-day codebase. I definitely see things that could be improved and this is a good list of items, but what I’m asking about was the decision to abandon the codebase and start fresh specifically.















  • It is and I could. I’d be fine doing it, but why not just read them when they come up in !fediverse@lemmy.world? I’ve been trying not to create communities that are going to be duplicates or spam, or split the user base between one way of reading articles and another way of reading articles. Do you want it as a DM, maybe?

    I think an even better way would be software that can follow the original Wordpress feed, if they have one, but Lemmy can’t do that right now.


  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPtoFediverse@lemmy.worldFollow RSS feeds from Lemmy
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    1 month ago

    Not a problem at all. I think a better way to do that will be to let moderators of existing communities add the bot to their existing communities. Someone asked about doing that, and it’s easy to set up the bot to make it possible, so I think I’ll just do that instead. I don’t need to create a duplicate community for anything that’s already got one.

    I’m fine with the existing structure, with one community per periodical. I tried !coding_blogs@rss.ponder.cat and !science_streams@rss.ponder.cat and it looks like some people are into that type of structure, but I’m thinking mostly in terms of one-periodical communities or moderators from off-instance communities being able to add things.

    Are there any that you would cherry-pick that you think you would personally use? I’d be perfectly willing to add them, if so.



  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPtoFediverse@lemmy.worldPaywall content for rss.ponder.cat
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    2 months ago

    Than there is problem with I don’t trust media will write the truth anyway, so giving them few bucks will probably not change that. But it is important for us to know what other people know.

    Are there any media sources that I’m hosting feeds for which you feel that way about? I think the problem is much worse in a lot of free content, and I’ve been trying to bring in honest and high-quality sources when I’m adding news sources.

    While this is outside of our current discussion, they need to find better model.

    If it is a daily newspaper, maybe paywal new articles and release after sone reasonable time (like a week, or month… or a year).

    I don’t understand, can you explain more?

    Edit: I understand now. That’s outside the scope of my abilities… I would like to be able to offer a paid subscription with a deal that provides access to a wide variety of paywalled content, like a site license at a university, but I think that’s also outside the scope of my abilities. You’re right that they need a better model.

    I like your idea of separating feeds, to keep paywalled content out of my feed.

    It seems like a good compromise. I certainly understand that if someone’s decided not to read paywalled content, putting a lot of it into their Lemmy feed in a way that’s difficult to disable isn’t a good thing to do. I think separating the paywalled content into a separate user so it’s easy to block is probably a good pragmatic solution.