Hadn’t realized how reliant upon Reddit I’d become for news and interesting things until after it turned to shit and I quit it. I’ve rediscovered RSS for ex., using reader apps to scan sources directly and read without all the noise—that actually came from someone’s recommendation here in the comments. I’ve found several new sites with deep, knowledgeable articles and discussions, like https://theconversation.com/us (free! No ads! Also discovered through the comments here), and my engagement with articles and their sources has gone WAY up. I’ve stopped reading garbage comment sections, too, and I’m just feeling better mentally as a result, disengaging from the endless, low effort memes/jokes and the mean, toxic comments*. Anyone else?

(Thanks again, admins—really enjoying and appreciating how Beehaw is run!)

  • lixus98@kbin.social
    14·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been working on a browser extension that makes easier the navigation between communities from different instances by adding an icon to the start of a community name or link.
    So for example if you have [email protected] or https://lemmy.ml/c/technology clicking the icon will take you to https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected]. It’s a small thing but very useful for us kbin users, however it works with lemmy as well.

    Also I’m working on a bot for kbin, specially made for subreddit mods that want to get content from their subreddits into a magazine, to help a little with the lack on content.