• Ben@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      Can you elaborate further on the YouTube - RSS feeds? Seems like something I’d like to use too

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      1 year ago

      I realised after a while that Quora is full of dumb question askers and question answerers wanting to sound smart. I earnt $5 from it though so can’t complain

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          Was that Quora as well? I thought that’s only StackOverflow :c

          But yes, I very much hope that the ethos of beehaw makes for “programming question” communities that are as useful as StackOverflow while not being so rude.

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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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        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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            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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            1 year ago

            RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.

            Back when blogs were a bigger thing, they would be setup with RSS to “push out” notifications when new posts were published. (Technically your RSS client pulls the RSS feeds but the end result is the same - the feed is just a list of posts basically).

            You open up your RSS client or site and there will be a list of sites you’re “following” and any new posts they’ve made.

            Plenty of sites still support RSS. A lot of readers can pull the RSS feed automatically if you just give them the site URL/web address.

            My personal choice is NewsBlur which is at https://NewsBlur.com. You can get a free account there to try it out.