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Honestly with how much of a reality show the US already is, I’m surprised this hasn’t been tried and televised lol

I’ve been really curious about Ghost lately! I set it up in a container on pikapods not too long ago but I ended up staying on Micro.blog. Something I really liked that I had no idea about beforehand was that they have their own little Discover feed over there right? It felt too serious for me when I mostly run an old school link/microblog kinda blog and it seems SO optimized for mailing lists and subscribers

Neocities isn’t a bad option tbh. I haven’t used it in a minute but if you’re thinking about neocities I really really liked bearblog.dev too!

That’s awesome! I’m in Ohio and he’s not coming anywhere near here on the tour lol but I did order the hardcover copy. I’m trying to hold off on the audiobook now so I can finish it as the actual book.

Hell yeah! I’ve been blogging for a couple years but I just use Micro.blog. I’d like to switch to something completely self hosted one of these days though.

I see a lot of potential for it to push people back to the small web too. Lots of people becoming interested in personal blogs lately, decentralized social media, the whole indie web movement, etc.

Definitely informative and depressing. Honestly kinda just confirming what a lot of people have suspected all along I think; everything’s a monopoly, companies are good until they lock enough people into their platform and then they’re too big to care. Lots of really good examples and depressing fun facts weaved into it lol. One thing that makes it so interesting to me is that over the last couple of decades we’ve all been watching the enshittification of everything in real time. This book makes sense of it. That said, idk what his solutions are 100% but I gotta believe he offers some kind of clarity or way forward by the time I finish it. I have a little ways to go still.

I’m about halfway through the book and it’s so good!

I love it! Even the built in CSS and JavaScript customization goes a long way. I’m not creative enough to figure out anything crazy with Greasemonkey lol

I love RSS! For the longest time I used Miniflux, and I still have an instance running, but lately I’ve just been using the Unread app on iOS. That’s one of the many great things about RSS: you’re not tied down to any specific app or platform, you can pack up and take your feeds wherever you want if you wanna try something different.

That’s how I feel about it too. Literally nothing I wanted to watch over there anyway. I’m not missing anything.

Almost everyone I know who cancelled their subscription is happily renewing it now that Kimmel is back on the air. I’m sticking with donating to PBS every month instead.

I used to LOVE Boost but now I’m on iOS so I can’t use it anymore 😩

It’s still invite only for now but I’d imagine it has to be getting close to the public release. If I had any invite codes left I woulda sent you one! We might get more pretty soon though. If so I’ll dm you one but idk when they’re coming. And piefed is pretty much Lemmy, only it’s powered by Python instead of Rust and it has more moderation features. Pretty similar experience though. You’re not really missing anything if you’re already on Lemmy. Right now, Lemmy/Piefed are definitely more active and mature than Digg. It looks pretty slick but there aren’t a whole lot of users yet. I do like it, I just like it here better right now.

Digg.com used to be my absolute favorite. Then it got bought out by a company who turned it into a content farm and it eventually died out. Now it’s back and owned by Kevin Rose again, and I do like it a lot better than Reddit, but I still spend more time on Piefed these days.

This was literally the first thing that came to mind. So many people have android phones with cards already linked to google, paying for YouTube premium would do the same thing. But nope, Skynet is the better way to do it

I wasn’t alluding to anything crazy or even very interesting I guess, but through my 20s I had quite a few factory jobs. Even at some of the better ones, it’s pretty normal to work seven days a week for months at a time, the pay sucks, and almost everyone’s on meth or opiates just to get by. The office workers always get exactly 40 hour weeks and no mandatory overtime ever while the factory people pretty much live there. I’m sure bigger companies like Intel, etc have much better conditions than metal stamping plants or commercial print shops, but it was the worst point in my life. Maybe it’s just where I live, but I don’t know anyone who has worked at a factory here and isn’t either a long term high functioning addict or just miserable in general. I was one of the top producers at a label printing plant for a few years and I was so trashed all the time I don’t know how I never got fired or lost a finger lmao I ran a lot of bad product at times and no one ever said anything as long as I had perfect attendance and showed up 20 minutes early every day.

I’ve worked at American factories before lol I’ll take the chips from overseas, please