I have ongoing hobbies like training my dog and doing garden-stuff during summer but other than that, I switch between gaming, reading, writing, drawing and making pixel art. I've had the same hobbies for years and must have spent several 1000 hours doing all of them by now but suspect I'd have burned out on everything if I didn't switch around. I like making things but I'm not trying to make any of it into a side-hustle - I have plenty work at work - so there is no pressure to keep doing a particular hobby when it begins to feel stale.
What was frustrating for me is they'd offer 20 Elon Musk articles daily, but now that they allow you to remove articles that match keywords, I've been much happier w/ my experience
News . Google is my main source of need since I already have a Gmail. I like how you can customize what you see by choosing to "see less" "not interested in these topics" and "hide from X source" it really helped curate what news I'm actually seeing and it updates quite frequently
It's good, but my Pihole blocks a lot of the articles because most of the links use amp, meaning they are tracking everything you click through it. This is from a purley mobile\android perspective in my case, but I'm sure the desktop experience isn't far from it.
it’s not continuous, it’s half a dozen different things intertwined – play for an hour in a game, add a paragraph to a book, get out into the garden for half an hour – cumulatively each individual item adds up (“a journey of a thousand miles”) but it’s an accumulation of a million steps …
when it’s a form of escapism, your mind will come up with all sorts of justifications – “I just listened to that client for a couple hours, I deserve a few minutes of game play”
Have more than one interest/hobby! I can't imagine doing the same for months on end with no alternative. I naturally gravitate to a monthly rotation (not consciously, just kinda happens) of high interest in something, and then there's a few things I do whenever (read a book when I have a few minutes here or there, do some cross stitching while watching my husband play a game, etc).
i found and tried out kbin first but it was still very small. i saw lots of activity on lemmy.world so i joined here. at first i was very confused and trying to use mastodon to access lemmy/kbin content which, while it technically works, makes following threads really confusing. so yeah, lemmy is where i access everything from but i'm following lots of kbin magazines here too
I also use NewsBlur as my backend organizational tool and catelog, then the Unread app on ios as my frontend reader because it's so simple and nice to look at.
This looks seriously good! Could you help me understand the benefits of subscribing? They mention things like "Compare Articles from 50,000+ News Sources" and "Media Bias Ratings" but it looks like I can get that without subscribing.
Really dont know what you get from subscribing.. even when browsing down low and clicking for more articles you get a "subscribe to read more" popup but just pressing ESC lets you read the newly loaded articles anyway.. I like the new ChatGPT summary for left / right media narratives and the Ownership tags of the different outlets.. really paints a clear view of the narrative being pushed by different outlets
I've been using Mastodon (i follow the NYT, the Guardian, the Telegraph, Reuters, and some other news sources). I also look at link / forum sites like Hacker News. I've been trying out the following, too:
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Why use Kbin over Mastodon to post a microblog to the Fediverse? Genuinely curious!
There were so many times I was browsing reddit and thought to myself, "this didn't deserve a post of its own." Was it content related to the subreddit? Absolutely. But it was simple, trite, repetitive - for example, just someone having a halfway neat experience in a game, but with an incident for which the novelty had worn thin for long-term players long ago. (oh so your taming inspiration lined up with a thrumbo passing, wao sugoi moving on....)
On the flip side, I'd often want to share my inane thoughts about a topic with others interested in that topic, but I knew my inane thoughts didn't really warrant a whole post. Sometimes I just wanted to say "I thought this event story was neat" without adding a "what did you think?" and massaging whatever discussion thread followed.
So, in short, I had a higher standard for what counted as discussion-worthy and was dissatisfied when both consuming and producing content because of it.
The kbin magazine blend of discussion threads and microblogs is perfect for this sort of problem, in my opinion, which is why kbin is my ideal setup. You clearly define when you want to make a discussion space for everyone vs. when you want to just bounce a thought into other like-minded people simply by whether you create a thread or a microblog, and you don't need two different sites (reddit/twitter, or lemmy/mastodon) to do it.
Some subreddits already had a daily/weekly discussion thread pinned to the top to serve exactly this purpose. Kbin's just taken that idea and made it a default part of the software.
I was never a big fan of twitter/mastodon random personal ramblings that would fill my feed so I was naturally very skeptical of the microblogging feature in kbin, but honestly... it kinda makes sense here!
If I'm on a magazine for some game like elden ring, for example, it makes sense to keep threads for big threaded conversations while using the microblog for just small thoughts, tips, screenshots, for sharing personal accomplishments or smaller things like that which don't usually create big discussions. If I need to ask a quick question I can just make a microblog post and maybe get answers even from people using mastodon that aren't on kbin or lemmy!
I'm mostly repeating what you said, I know, but just wanted to gush about it a bit, it's a pretty cool idea.
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