Wonderful, I hope they burn the sub to the ground before reddit makes any more ad revenue off it.

Yes, thank you. Excessive prudishness and self censoring is always an indicator to me that a community is going a weird direction.

Frisbee golf. It's cheap, fun but challenging, and outdoors. Worst case scenario, you go on a long walk and bump into some interesting people. If you're in a medium sized city or larger, there is probably a course and league near you.

The culture is generally very polite and fun to be around. Lots of harmless stoners and 30yo bearded people with beers in hand. In the south there is starting to be some influence from megachurches using it as an enticement, so I'm not sure if it's "cleaned up" a little more down there.

Pushing the metaphor even further, all my stuff isn't even moved out of the ex's house yet, so I'll probably want to keep talking about them until the situation is over. It's just going to take a little time.

Yeah, it's the little niche communities that I'm sad about:

An arborist spent 4 years helping me take care of an elm tree. They'd PM me every May to ask how it was doing, and I'd start another thread and send them pictures so they could tell me how to fix the roots or change the guy wires or prune the branches. When it got complicated, another arborist popped out of the woodwork to offer a second opinion and more advice.

I helped a person on oscilloscopemusic breadboard a little 2 channel opamp buffer/amp so they could use a CRT to make shapes from music instead of needing to buy a scope.

I won't miss reddit, but I will miss interactions like that.

If you have a little technical skill, you can set up your own raspberry pi ads-b receiver really easily. Just need the raspi, and SDR dongle, and an antenna. Floghtaware provides a flash image for the OS. If you feed them data, you get a free premium subscription. I used to use it to get alerts when the state patrol speed trap aircraft were taking off so I knew not to speed on a long interstate commute.

Seems like this post is helpful for other people with the same question, and a good basis for discussion about what the community sees as acceptable norms with regards to self promotion.

For the guide, I needed an explanation on how to subscribe to local vs. not local communities. Also, the difference in subscribing to a federated community that is already linked to your instance, vs linking it the first time (by copy pasting it's address into the search bar). Especially note that you might have to wait a few minutes after searching it the first time, refresh, then search again to be able to sub. That was really confusing. Also that process doesn't seem to work at all if you're in jerboa, at least for me.

Also, how to sub in jerboa: you probably have to open the sidebar.

Those have been most confusing so far. I didn't really need a guide on "this is how federated systems work", as much as a step by step guide for finding and subscribing to communities of interest. Honestly, an mspaint/screenshot idiot's guide with "click here first" level instructions would go a really long way in helping people figure it out, then we could copypasta it easily as well.

For finding content, https://browse.feddit.de/ has come in handy.

Similar to FO4, I feel the same way about Skyrim. Vanilla it's fine, but the graphics and interface QOL mods make a huge difference.

Kickass name/instance combo btw.

I used to use Relay for reddit, and jerboa feels really familiar. It's development really picked up last release too. Still having an issue getting back to a comment context from a reply in my inbox, but I think that's a bug from last release and there's a pull request already.

Exactly. Make it infrastructure that's hidden away from the front end. Find some way to wrap up duplicate groups into larger categories or something, and figure out a way to migrate accounts if your home instance tanks. That would cover all my concerns.

That's why you go .tar.gz

Probably because it doesn't load a bunch of trash along with the content.

My book club votes every month on one person's nominees, and last month I nominated these choices from my Dad's old fantasy shelf:

Nine princes in amber, Chronicles of Amber series, Roger Zelazny

Midnight at the well of souls, Well world series, Jack L Chalker

Guardians of time, time patrol series, Poul Anderson

Sorcerer's son, book of elementals series, Phyllis Eisenstein

It turned out that all of them were out of print and unavailable except for Amber... which the library didn't have! Really frustrating, as I read them as a kid and they're all amazing. There is a huge stock of interesting and subversive 60's and 70's fantasy out there that does seem to be in danger of being forgotten.

On the bright side, I feel like Goodreads is helping people rediscover old stuff. I don't have a Goodreads account, but I do appreciate their lists. For example, here is a list of classic 60s sci-fi: https://www.goodreads.com/...

There's another list for the 70's, and more for fantasy. So that does make me feel better; you could spend years down the 70's subversive sci-fi rabbit hole.

Anyways, check out the Chronicles of Amber, it'll blow your mind.

*Sorry for my poor formatting, mobile is hard.

Cool.

But how will I get emotional validation from a group of anonymous strangers?

Ah cool thanks! Do you know what the cutout mates up with? I see in your screenshots that they're all keyed various ways, I'm guessing they went into some kind of punch machine or something along those lines?

Edit: best I found is from here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1859307

To facilitate the reassembly of the articles in customers groups, tag holders are provided, and to make confusion impossible, these holders are provided with characteristic admittance means, the tags having similar characteristic admittance means so that only-the tags of a certain number (and therefore of 'a certain customer) may be assembled on the holder having that number.

Makes it sound like there was a sort of rail that matched the cutout to mistake proof putting one person's tagged clothes bags back together after they were laundered.

I posted a different thread, and someone almost immediately found it with a reverse image search.

It's a military laundry key tag. It connects to a huge safety pin that hooks to your mesh laundry bag. The cutout is related to some sort of automatic sorting mechanism, there's a matching rail that it goes onto to make sure that all of one person's bags end up together. I'm still hunting for more info on that machine because it sounds really cool.

I agree with what both of you are saying about the antagonism of the community writ large, but I am going to miss the small subs. There are dozens of them I subbed that have 500 or 1k users and are really tightly focused communities. They still have that feel from 2010ish reddit.

I'm ready to close the book on reddit as a whole, but I really will miss r/heavyseas and r/obscuremedia and r/theocho and r/desirepath etc.