this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
80 points (96.5% liked)

General Discussion

11932 readers
4 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy.World General!

This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.


πŸͺ† About Lemmy World


🧭 Finding CommunitiesFeel free to ask here or over in: [email protected]!

Also keep an eye on:

For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse and Feddit Lemmy Community Browser!


πŸ’¬ Additional Discussion Focused Communities:


Rules

Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.0. See: Rules for Users.

  1. No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  2. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. Be thoughtful and helpful: even with β€˜silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
  4. Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
  5. Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to [email protected] or [email protected] communities.
  6. No Ads/Spamming.
  7. No NSFW content.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

as in, the sites you always type unconsciously and hover on throughout the day. ideally something more beneficial than this

all 33 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Zombo.com.

You can do anything at Zombo com.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Zombo.com and Broof.com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Anything at all!

Yes.... Welcome!

The only limit is yourself!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good question… as I open up lemmy for the 70th time today.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Better than Reddit at least

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

Find a RSS aggregator that you like and add the RSS feeds of websites you enjoy going to. I'm assuming most have the ability to search websites based off topics to help you get started.

The feed will show you every update those websites makes automatically.

There's no comments or frivolous things. Just headlines, images and text of the webpage.

It's a nice reprieve from social media.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Fark.com is a really great news agitator and community

It's similar but different to Lemmy and Reddit in many significant and interesting ways

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fark.com

Time is a flat circle....

I never went on Digg, but Fark is what I used pre-reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Me too. After years away, I poked in on it. It was a Saturday, and the Caturday thread looked just like the last one I had seen, many years before. Seemed strange.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

news agitator

I feel like that was autocorrect, but it's hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was also slashdot back in the day, although I haven’t checked it out in a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

News for nerds. Stuff that matters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hackernews is still great and there's an app (Harmonic).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But the last time I actually looked up a porn performer who seemed cool, it turned out she was a raging transphobe who would want to kill half my housemates. :(

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Never meet your heroes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Holy shit!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You are the modern day "I read Playboy magazine for the articles".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Hackaday.com is great if you are into hobbyist electronics! I also spend a lot of time on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Hacker news

[–] Dyskolos 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Telegram.

I know I am an apologist, but there're many good groups of simple news and knowledge but also goot groups of trading and discussion.

Also it's one of the last bastions of freedom. Especially loved by people in repressed countries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do you find groups you might like?

[–] Dyskolos 3 points 11 months ago

Either by word-of-mouth, or the indexers of groups.

Like https://telegramchannels.me/groups

Most of mine are local-only groups for smallads or zigbee/smarthome-discussion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dyskolos 2 points 11 months ago

It has social-media-features nowadays. But in its core it's just a messenger

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

YouTube, I learn quite a bit there. Also Discord, and lemmy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Discord is where i went. It's annoying that it's less indexable, but that's also protected it from malicious advertising.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For me, MetaFilter, ResetEra, Tildes, and Feedly (RSS reader).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Current events portal, recent deaths portal, and the on this day portal on the Wikipedia.