amitten

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[–] amitten@normalcity.life 3 points 2 years ago

This is my take as well.

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had no idea! I'm not sure how if I want RSS with lemmy/kbin. I might not want the noise in the RSS feed, you know? Just highly curated interesting stuff.

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 1 points 2 years ago

Awesome. I'll subscribe and see what's there.

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The idea of my question is to ask how one goes about this discovery of finding these interesting blogs.

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 1 points 2 years ago

There is a way to remove duplicate articles on Inoreader, but it's a premium feature. I don't really want to pay for something so simple as RSS, so I just, unfortunately, resign myself to deal with it.

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My question was not to ask for you to find something that's interesting to me. My question was to ask how do you personally go about finding interesting (to you) RSS feeds. Tools or methods was what I was looking for. For example, see @redshift@lemmy.ml and their reply to this post.

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 5 points 2 years ago

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 3 points 2 years ago

Inoreader has been great. There is a premium tier but I've never actually needed it. Nice, polished, professional, and perfect transition between iOS and the web interface.

 

I'd like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content.

What do you do to find these kinds of RSS feeds?

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 4 points 2 years ago

Yep. It’s a cycle that I continually get better at working with instead of against.

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've been toying with the idea of starting a physics (astrophysics welcome) community over at https://normalcity.life/(my home lemmy instance) for physics academics. I'd love a community like that because it's my everyday life. Does that sound interesting? Not sure if others would be interested.

Edit: home instance clarification

[–] amitten@normalcity.life 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm in support of this. I was explaining to my wife just a bit ago that most of the "content" on lemmy and kbin is all about lemmy and kbin, and very little about anything else. For those of us coming from reddit, most of the content on reddit isn't about reddit. I'd like it if lemmy and kbin was mostly original content.

 

I’ve recently found it beneficial to have a home lemmy instance that does not have a lot of users. This allows me to access content that has been defederated. But, as many have said, using the communities and creating content for them is like oxygen, and we need oxygen for survival.

So if I’m on a very small instance, but want to create a community that gets users, it makes sense to have that community on one of the larger instances. But how would one go about doing that from a smaller instance? Would I create the community from the larger instance and then interact with it from the smaller one? Or is that bad practice?

Any thoughts would be helpful.

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