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Title: Any interest in a new community?
Text: We are of course building this community so one may ask: why setup another website? A few reasons. It's nice that this website is actively being developed but when you start from scratch it's gonna lack a lot of features that other softwares already have. An important one is the ability to create a real sub instead of just tagging your posts. This encourages users to manage and build their own communities instead of getting assimilated into a frontpage. I realize work is being done in exactly this but I'm simply the type to take an existing software package and set that up. Another reason is because it's fun. And the timing for this is right because Redditors are still looking for a decent alternative. I will get flack for that but I try to see the good in people. I believe we can get the good people from /r/redditalternatives and that will be a good basis for a new community. Digg setup a new community recently. That's on hold for technical reasons but the point is: this sort of thing is in the air right now.
Here's the thing: it isn't up to me to do the community building / social aspect of it right now. It requires a lot of dedication while I have different priorities currently. I will have to build the community to a degree, of course, but by myself I cannot put in the required time for it. Are any of you guys interested in building a new community?
I was thinking of using a software package like HumHub or a containerized Reddit / Saidit instance.
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Title: What web browser do you use?
Text: I tested Unjewgled Chromium for a bit. I like the security that comes from the website separation it provides (check out [Madaidan's article](https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html) for details / issues with Firefox) as well as the low attack surface of having a barebones browser. It's a bit too barebones for me. There is no sync feature. You cannot install extensions by default due to a technical issue (telemetry data is sent to jewgle when you install them, so by gutting all jewgle dependence you have to sacrifice that feature) but I found a workaround by opening the same profile in regular chromium and installing it from there. But there is an issue still: no manifest v2 so no uBlock Origin. I installed a clone of that which relies on workarounds to provide the same functionality, and while it does block ads, it fails to block annoyances like floating helpdesk / survey buttons that stick to the corner or side of webpages.
Line break because the paragraph is becoming too long. I don't heavily edit these because I partake in [Conversational Style(tm)](https://submatrix.net/c/whatever/5hUgFYV7FQ). Anyway, no real uBlock Origin is a dealbreaker to me so I switched back to Brave. It's Chromium-based so has the same tab separation but they maintain support for Manifest v2 extensions and special support for uBlock Origin, they will basically provide that for as long as they can manage, so that is how long I will use Brave for. After that I will give up on Chromium-based browsers probably and either go back to a Firefox fork (I like FireDragon and want to give Basilisk another try) or try the Ladybird browser which should be released by then. That is a future concern. Brave sets me for a while.
What web browser(s) do you use?
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Title: Introducing open_slate: A Powerful and Private 2-in-1 Tablet (6:34) ~ Brax Technologies and Rob Braxman Tech
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Title: The Hidden Code of Melody (9:14) ~ Interlaced
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Title: The Only Thing You Need to Get Good At
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Title: Getting What We Want Isn’t What We Really Want
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Title: Idea: Report the spammers
Text: I noticed someone with the same link many times in the whenever queue. He may still be there at the time you read this, but /u/MatthewEdward was the guy's name. I haven't gotten around to removing the whenevers at the time I'm writing this. So I thought that was odd, a spammer using the whenever queue. He'd have to fill up his rate limit first. So then I browsed his posts. Yep. He successfully spammed. Folks had downvoted him. A very reasonable and correct thing to do.
But I realized the downside. I had no clue this had happened because of the successful downvoting. Here is the number 1 spam lesson Saidit failed to learn. Removing old spam is more important than removing new spam. The spammers want their links to age. A link that ages is their cheese. And when they get some they will be back to get more. It's more important to remove spam consistently than quickly.
I had gotten a lot of you to volunteer to help remove spam. But then it stopped. Most said they never even saw that bout of spam it was so short lived and we took care of it so fast. But when it stopped I kind of shifted priorites because setting up a way that users can remove content and preventing abuse, it's not impossible, but it isn't easy. So I kind of want to see we have a proper problem before I finish that in lue of getting other things for the site done.
So in the meantime. If you see a spammer, downvote them and mention it. I know that is just passing the nucensce factor. But making sure zero spam links age is pretty critical. We will get spam proportional to the amount of cheese we let them have.
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Title: A Wooden Topo Map of Portland, ME
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Title: Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in ‘AI slop’ code contributions: ‘I don’t know how long we can keep it up’
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Title: What concept do you smell like today?
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Title: The Equation of time - How much physical time differs from civil time
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Title: The Amanta and Purnimanta systems - Opposing views on how to count the start of a new month between north and south India
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Title: Pitru Paksha - Annual custom of venerating ancestors in the Fall
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Title: Dongzhi (solar term) - The Winter solstice in the lunarsolar calendar
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Title: Let's Make Deep Fried Sesame Balls! Nutella & Red Bean (9:17)
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Title: Inti Raymi - Incan Solstice celebrations
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Title: Inti Raymi - Incan Solstice celebrations
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Title: Alban Arthan - Celtic Winter Solstice
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Title: Every DDR Ram Explained Correctly (7:05)
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Title: Use paper straws
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Title: They Didn't Let Rock Die It Was Pushed Out - Billy Corgan
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Title: Short term pain
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Title: Transgender Reddit “Power moderator” behind r/GenderCritical and r/WomensLiberation bans is a convicted domestic abuser
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Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Text: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business is a 1985 nonfiction book by media theorist Neil Postman. It argues that television and entertainment-oriented media have transformed public communication, undermining rational discourse and civic life in favor of spectacle and amusement.
Written during the rise of television’s cultural dominance, Postman’s work builds on ideas from Marshall McLuhan, emphasizing that “the medium is the metaphor.” He contrasts the print-based public discourse of earlier centuries—analytical, reasoned, and sustained—with television’s visual, fragmented, and entertainment-driven communication style.
Postman contends that the form of a medium affects the kind of content it can meaningfully convey. Television, he argues, prioritizes entertainment above information or logic, even in domains like news, education, religion, and politics. This shift turns serious public conversation into shallow performance, where image eclipses substance.
The Information-Action Ratio: News creates disinformation—superficial, irrelevant, or fragmented content that gives the illusion of being informed but prevents real understanding or action. People are “amused” but not empowered to act.
Huxley Over Orwell: Postman warns that society is not being controlled through fear and censorship (Orwell’s 1984), but through voluntary self-amusement and distraction (Huxley’s Brave New World). People willingly surrender attention and critical thought for entertainment, making tyranny unnecessary.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
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Title: Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday
Text: Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator is a 2012 nonfiction book by marketer and author Ryan Holiday. It exposes how modern online media systems can be exploited to influence opinion, and create “viral” narratives. The book became a cult classic for its candid look at the mechanics of digital publicity.
Written after Holiday’s tenure as director of marketing for American Apparel, the book documents how he and others manipulated blogs and news sites to promote clients. Holiday argues that the incentive structure of online journalism—driven by advertising revenue tied to clicks—rewards speed and sensationalism over accuracy. This, he claims, allows marketers and political operatives to “trade up the chain,” moving fabricated or exaggerated stories from small blogs to mainstream outlets.
The narrative reveals the feedback loop between blogs, social media, and traditional news organizations. Holiday explains techniques such as planting rumors, exploiting journalists’ need for traffic, and shaping narratives through selective leaks or staged controversies. He frames these tactics as both a confession and a warning: anyone can now influence public perception with minimal cost or oversight.
Key arguments:
- Media as an attention economy: sensationalism is the currency
- Manufactured controversy: media exploits outrage
- Publish first, verify later: It doesn't matter if it's right. People click in all the same. A late correction is just a second story for more clicks. So publish the wrong story now.
- Emotional drive: Content that evokes strong emotions, especially anger, spreads more easily. This results in oversimplification of complex issues, eroded nuance, and the amplification of extreme voices. Constant exposure leads to readers in an advanced neurotic state. In this state, they will have a stronger drive to keep up with your zero to negative value content.
- Giving media corporations a stick: Online media functions as a tool for public shaming, where minor incidents can spiral into national outrage, often without due process or proportionality.
- Incentives: The media ecosystem is broken not because of bad actors alone, but because of incentive structures that reward deception. His solution is to improve media literacy, critical thinking, and new models that prioritize truth over clicks.
My solution is just recognizing that news media as it currently exists is just bad. Developing better technique for consuming a spoonful of shit isn't the answer. Why improve media literacy when you can be literate enough to know that you aren't going to get something valuable out of it anyway?
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Title: How to Build an Autonomous AI Agent with n8n and Decapod
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Title: How to Build a Serverless RAG Pipeline on AWS That Scales to Zero
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Title: How To Overcome Digital Addiction and Have More Willpower
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Title: Food is one of the things the Japanese do right
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Title: 3 Easiest DIY Aquaponic Systems Builds (3:46)
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Title: Starting an Aquaponics System | How to Start & What You Need (18:44)
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Title: Backyard Aquaponics Farming Fresh Tilapia Fish and Vegetables with RAS System (part 2) (15:46)
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