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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Well, despite the difficulties translating to Federated platforms, I will certainly be working on alternative social platforms.

I no longer use Quora or Facebook...

I unsubscribed my 'YouTube' channels and added them as RSS feeds, so there's no need for me to be signed in there to consume content from creators I follow.

I hope that a month or two with the Fediverse will allow me to understand it better. I'm sure that many Fediverse users will also remain on Reddit and be able to advise folks on what to do.

If anyone on, for example, r/firefox announced activity over here, I'd follow them here. So whatever the 'bots' say, I know what's occurring in my corner.

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    RSS is one thing I have yet to dive into. There are videos that I want to watch and channels that I want to be subscribed to but I'm disliking the constant monitoring if activity online.

    Cirfsnglh on travel with AirBNBs and the smart TVs with logins feels so weird knowing what others are up to, and I don't feel comfortable adding my recents to their lists.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Inoreader works very nicely for me. I have quite a few folders set up... Stuff I had bookmarks for, but rarely visited lately...

    • Digg Top Stories (43 unread) if I get bored - at least a dozen of those will keep me entertained.

    Stuff from the 'other' place - useful fodder to consider 'bridging' or just 'copy/pasting' over in Fediverse :P

    I added the Firefox extension, so if I visit Youtube - for example (open this in a PRIVATE window, not logged in) Insights from Ukraine and Russia then I can Easily add the RSS by searching in Inoreader.

    Here's Daily Dose of Internet

    The beauty being that you can quickly go through all this stuff - great keyboard accessibility (90% covered with Shift J-K to go to the next/previous feed, Shift-X to toggle expansion of the folder, J - K to go (and mark read) the next/previous item (but you can ALWAYS view all articles in a thread)... all without visiting the sites.

    Feedly and Inoreader are both awesome - and you can (and should regularly) export a list of your feeds as a backup/migration strategy.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago

    Feedly is great, use it for my private RSS stuff.

    At work, on macos, I use rssbot - which isn't an RSS reader but just an ... uhm ... rss linker? It doesn't feature the capability to read content but just gives you a list of links to anything new. If that's enough for you, it's a great app.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I have never understood what RSS is or how to access it even after looking it up

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    RSS is one of the oldest protocols existing. Basically it's like a feed with links to things posted...

    I'd suggest you start with Feedly or Inoreader, make an account and take a look.

    For me, it means that I can see notifications (Inoreader) telling me how many unread items have occurred across the 79 websites I added as feeds.

    • I have a folder for 'Fediverse' with feeds like Lemmy - ukraine (also Reddit's r/ukraine).

    • I have a 'Linux' folder, containing a few interesting blogs - like Niccolo's KDE developer blog, a few news sites, plus announcements from my OS forum.

    • I have a 'News' folder with various sources (one is a journalist I know with a Facebook page - as I don't use Facebook).

    • I have a 'Video' folder

    • I have a 'Time Waster' folder which has things like Digg, WindowSwap, Drive & Listen

    Basically, any time you make an account and request updates from a website, the same can be done with NO account and simply copying the RSS link.

    It gives you updates on things you don't need to bother bookmarking or opening to follow.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    wait, I've never used quora. whats bad about it

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @soiling @BendyLemmy the quality of answers is low, you're not missing out

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It’s kind of famous for some stupidly bad questions & answers.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That was Yahoo! Answers. Quroa is...a titch better.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Depends on context. Yahoo Answers was so bad it was a form of entertainment (unintentionally), especially with people curating the funny stuff so you never had to even set foot there.

    Quora on the other hand just pays people to participate so you end up with people who don't even have any questions they need to ask making up garbage, then people giving copy/pasted or even completely wrong answers to boost their reputation. The site also always pesters you to log in. It's not even useful as a source of a good laugh.

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