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Anyone else enjoying the Internet better, now that they’re off Reddit? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by SemioticStandard@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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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!)

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[–] lixus98@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been doing so many things for kbin, it has literally reignited my passion to code. I'm having a blast

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oooh, what have you been working on?

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 !technology@lemmy.ml or https://lemmy.ml/c/technology clicking the icon will take you to https://beehaw.org/c/technology@lemmy.ml. 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.

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

That's cool, good luck!

[–] lunar_parking@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would love to hear about what kinds of things you've been doing!

[–] lixus98@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Check my response to Lionir above (or below?) :)