Yeah even if you parked your billion in some account with super low interest, say 0.1%, it'd still generate a million dollars a year without you even doing a thing.
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
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.
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
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.
I generally avoid news aggregators because I see them as an extra layer of filter between news publishers and me. I just regularly follow a number of national and international publications as a habit.
Yea I'm trying to get away from the political bias and echo chambering a singular news source gives you, but at same time like aggregators for being time efficient. That ground.news another person shouted out actually seems really interesting and to fit the bill. It gives you multiple viewpoints of each trending news story and labels what bias they are leaning.
But they will still get to decide which news stories should be given prominence and if they are your only source, you will never know if they omit some less 'trendy' but important story. News publications do this as well, but if you follow enough of them with varying editorial leanings, it kind of fixes that issue. You could set up a RSS feed aggregator to achieve this as well I guess.
True true, maybe I just need a good mixture in an rss, decent aggregator + my own curated primary news sources. Tbh the thing I like best about a good aggregator is it’s kinda like Reddit, occasionally you will get a great off the wall article from a a source you would of never of followed or had on your own rss. Such as a local news for somewhere you don’t even live.
Yeah, there is nothing wrong in going through news aggregators. I just don't find it wise to use them as the only source of news or even the primary source, like many do.
And there is also the fact that the more influential news aggregators become, the more dependent news publishers (especially the small newsrooms who struggle with readership and revenue streams) will be to them. And since the popular ones are mostly run by big tech, that's not good anyway whatsoever.
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.
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