Hello world. I think you should come visit Canada someday.
First of all, we're the largest country in the world that isn't at war for literally no good reason.
Second, we are really big. Not just big: we are utterly, immensely VAST. I haven't even seen all that this country has to offer yet, and I live here. This absolves you from needing to see everything there is. It just can't be done :) So you get to choose: Mountains? Oceans? Prairies? Rugged arctic landscapes that will chill you to the bone just to look at them? We got 'em! We even have a desert. I have no idea why we have a desert, but we do. We're just overachievers that way. We have the world's highest tides (yay Atlantic Canada) and the most adorable lighthouses and cottages you've ever seen. Yes that's in Nova Scotia, the most unnecessarily pretty place I've ever visited. Must be nice to live there, I tell you. Small towns, big cities, and places where you can yell as loud as you want and only mildly annoy the wildlife.
Third, and most importantly, Canadians are generally pretty nice people. (Even the ones that watch too much American media can still be okay on a good day.) Case in point: let's say it's fall of 2001 and things suddenly go historically insanely crazy, what do you do? You stay for a few weeks in Newfoundland and end up as the setting for a really great stage musical, that's what.
Best of all, you don't have to take my word for it : come see for yourself.
Back in the mid-90s, I actually bumped into one before I knew about their existence. One night while slowly scanning the shortwave dial, suddenly there was this female voice reciting strings of numbers in an almost robotic way. Then it stopped, and switched to the static of a frequency that is transmitting no signal.
As it turns out, these things have been going on for decades, there have been hundreds of them, and nobody in the general public knows:
What they are saying, as the numbers are surely a coded message.
Who and where is sending them.
Who and where are they being sent to.
The most probable explanation is espionage, but nobody really knows.
I've been using Lemmy since a couple of weeks ago, but I've made an account here to see what the fuzz is all about.
To be honest, I've already configured my desktop Lemmy experience to my liking so my view will be biased. On the other hand, I am finding the default UI here to be close to what I want to begin with.
What I find confusing, however, is all the extra stuff that Lemmy doesn't have. I already use Mastodon for microblogging, so I doubt I'd be using the microblogging aspect of Kbin.
I use the micro blogging feature inside magazines where I'm asking for help that doesn't require a link to anything. It acts like a standard forum in that mode
I see, thanks! Let me see if I got you correctly. You can use the microblogging features of kbin to make text-only posts on magazines, right?
Actually, now that I've thought about it, you can just make microblog post on your Kbin profile, right? I guess that'd then be Kbin's equivalent of "posting to your own profile" back in Reddit (not that I've ever used that feature tho. lol!).
Kbin. I think it has a more interesting feature set. Plus, the main Lemmy devs are apparently ‘free speech absolutists’ similar to Elon. They refuse to take down reported posts on their main instance, stuff like North Korea not being oppressive, pro-Putin propaganda, etc.
Clicked a link for Lemmy a few weeks ago and backed away slowly. Later tried Kbin social and just set up an account. It was easy. It’s still new and feels awkward. There’s annoying things like scrolling for the comment box, going through profile for subscriptions and problems finding replies and comments on Lemmy, but change is never easy.
Kbin all the way, also as de-federated community. That said, now that I'm getting the gist of selecting the instances and magazines I want, enjoying the federated content has also become easier.
What was your experience finding rss feeds for people you've been following on twitter? Do you have to look up everyone individually and hope they have a blog or site like that?
I dusted off my Feedly account. You can follow up to 100 publications for free. For me, that's more than enough to get the main U.S. and world headlines, plus a few special interests. I like to sort by Popular + Latest or just latest.
You can sort by Most Popular if you pay $6 a month. I never felt a need to try that. The free version is easy to use, looks nice, and keeps me informed. Hot stories are marked with green text and a green arrow, so they're pretty easy to spot.
I set it up years ago. Just added every newspaper or news site I could think of, plus whatever looked interesting from r/worldnews and a few other subreddits.
When I deleted my Facebook account a good five years ago, I started using RSS to get my news. I also use Feedly. I like how the app looks, I still use the legacy one, as it's simple and I'm used to it.
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