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big black turnout posted:lovely slashdot that's just regular slashdot
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atomicvocabulary posted:I'm an internet OG but never used Digg, was it any good? no
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Jul 3, 2023 05:41
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It was an aggregator, like Reddit. It was fine. Its design was a little more “friendly”, at least compared to OG Reddit, but a little less functional IMO.
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Jul 3, 2023 05:43
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i remember digg getting popular and started using it to browse news, etc for a week or two, then kinda coming to the conclusion that it sucked rear end that was long before it apparently got worse and everyone migrated to reddit
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if you’re trying to determine if something was good, simply ask yourself the question, “was it on the internet?” if the answer is yes, then it was bad
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Jul 3, 2023 06:01
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atomicvocabulary posted:I'm an internet OG but never used Digg, was it any good? Eh, at the start it was alright place to check every now and then for tech news and some other things. Back then you were going to multiple sites to fill time, no expectation for a one size fits all deal. Digg started adding other topics, but really quickly it started devolving into a lot of crappy Lowest Common Denominator crap to become more of a daily hub. My main issue with it at the time was it becoming overloaded with top 10 lists of custom Lego (vaguely tech/videogame/nerd related IP) and just dumb poo poo like that. The way it worked back then it would just clog up the pages and push down the stuff I actually wanted to see. There were also fewer people really able to post content, I forgot how it worked exactly. That's not inherently a bad thing, but the stuff the site was posting sucked more and more. My computer science teacher used reddit and I started lurking there, it was all just links to articles and a comment section for discussion below. Then they allowed linking directly to images and displaying thumbnails for it and reddit almost immediately turned itself into Digg, except way bigger and letting anyone post stuff and make communities.
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Khanstant posted:Eh, at the start it was alright place to check every now and then for tech news and some other things. Back then you were going to multiple sites to fill time, no expectation for a one size fits all deal. Don't forget they forcefully pushed out that Digg v4 site rewrite that nobody asked for and nobody liked at a point when they were already kind of on thin ice, iirc
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Jul 3, 2023 06:15
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IIRC Digg also didnt do subreddits. I think you could choose certain topics to go into your feed, but it was way more of a grain silo of general internet stuff. Reddit can be tailored down pretty efficiently to stay away from most of the dumb poo poo.
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Jul 3, 2023 06:25
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Going going, back back, to mIRC 
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Jul 3, 2023 10:58
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DeusIgnis posted:I just came back to SA now that Twitter and Reddit are borked. Same. Then I realised I registered here 20 years ago and now I feel bad about my life
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Jul 3, 2023 11:28
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cadex posted:Same. Then I realised I registered here 20 years ago and now I feel bad about my life
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Jul 3, 2023 11:40
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cadex posted:Same. Then I realised I registered here 20 years ago and now I feel bad about my life But at least this crackhouse is still standing after all these years.
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Jul 3, 2023 11:47
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My RIF is still working for whatever reason. Once that stops I'll probably be done since the mobile experience is untenable. I was also using the hopwatch app on my shield to watch reddit videos, I presume that's probably going away too but I haven't checked. I feel like there's a hole in the market for pushing gif/video content to TVs in a constant stream of poo poo you might actually want to watch.
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Jul 3, 2023 15:42
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In a lot of ways I downgraded when I went from a 16 foot HDMI connecting my tv and laptop to having Roku streaming whatever service I pay or leech off of and YouTube with ads every 5 minutes.
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Jul 3, 2023 15:54
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Having an endless feed of the videos from reddit on my TV sounds like malware that you'd have to pay hackers to remove
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Jul 3, 2023 15:55
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Konar posted:Having an endless feed of the videos from reddit on my TV sounds like malware that you'd have to pay hackers to remove That's certainly a valid opinion. I will say though being able to turn on the TV and just watch clips from animalsbeingderps is more blessed than cursed in my experience.
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Jul 3, 2023 16:04
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Remember when the forums had a Digg button? It lasted a long time after Digg got replaced by reddit
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Jul 3, 2023 16:05
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Mega64 posted:Remember when the forums had a Digg button? I miss it
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Jul 3, 2023 16:15
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Reddit needs a Something Awful button.
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Jul 3, 2023 16:37
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Houle posted:and YouTube with ads every 5 minutes. A VPN to Turkey and I've got a Youtube Premium family plan for ~£2.50/month.
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Jul 3, 2023 17:06
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SmartTube is ad free but third party and likely to be killed soon if trends hold I imagine.
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Jul 3, 2023 17:10
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:A VPN to Turkey and I've got a Youtube Premium family plan for ~£2.50/month. This kind of exploit is supposedly behind regional Steam price hikes, Turkey included.
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Jul 3, 2023 17:17
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Cousin Todd posted:SmartTube is ad free but third party and likely to be killed soon if trends hold I imagine. Youtube is doing their best to murder YT Vanced but it keeps on living like a cockroach somehow. I wish we could just watch poo poo in peace jfc
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Jul 3, 2023 17:32
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Peace is only for those who can shell out $10 per month
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Jul 3, 2023 17:34
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Houle posted:In a lot of ways I downgraded when I went from a 16 foot HDMI connecting my tv and laptop to having Roku streaming whatever service I pay or leech off of and YouTube with ads every 5 minutes. Best free solution is Brave browser on iPhone airplaying to an Apple TV. Blocks all the ads, seamless playback on the tv and you can use other apps while it’s playing.
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Jul 3, 2023 18:11
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Peaked at the front page today. There's a smattering of subs I'd never even heard of before. All really soft content like "What do you if you can't go to sleep at night, reddit?" (every post has a reply that says 'crank one out'). Just soft no-thought useless "today i learned" type stuff. No meta-drama or site commentary. Not even threads about current political events, us or international. Just a dangerously highly opioid drip of feel nothing content. There is no war in Ba Sing Se. Literally 1984
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Jul 3, 2023 18:17
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wooger posted:Best free solution is Brave browser on iPhone airplaying to an Apple TV. Blocks all the ads, seamless playback on the tv and you can use other apps while it’s playing. its not "free" but an HTPC reigns supreme for all things (except using a remote to navigate), a cheap little used dell optiplex will do everything including running a fairly decent plex server Though of course constant appification means sometimes there are issues with browsers and lower resolution playback. Nothing is perfect 
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Jul 3, 2023 18:18
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Only took 2 days for the swarm of ChatGPT bots to start posting in force, yeesh. The general tone sounds generally familiar; is that how my posts sound to other people? 
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Jul 3, 2023 18:19
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bus hustler posted:its not "free" but an HTPC reigns supreme for all things How does that let me browse YouTube on my phone and have the videos appear without ads instantly on my TV when I play them?
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Jul 3, 2023 18:30
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wooger posted:How does that let me browse YouTube on my phone and have the videos appear without ads instantly on my TV when I play them? NewPipe alternatively, adblocking DNS, hit all your devices from your router. Grey Cat fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Jul 3, 2023 |
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Jul 3, 2023 18:32
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Grey Cat posted:NewPipe Pretty sure youtube serves ads from the same cdn they do videos. I just pay for premium. I get youtube music and no ads on YouTube as a bonus.
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Jul 3, 2023 18:36
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Slimy Hog posted:Pretty sure youtube serves ads from the same cdn they do videos. Well newpipe app still works just fine (rip vance though), blocks all youtube ads, can still cast and all that jazz. So does any generic adblock. So I don't see why a DNS blocker that totes doing the same would be any different but I've been wrong before.
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Jul 3, 2023 18:38
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Cousin Todd posted:SmartTube is ad free but third party and likely to be killed soon if trends hold I imagine. They can't kill an app if you sideload it.
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Bonzo posted:They can't kill an app if you sideload it. That's definitely not true. That is to say the concern is less the app not being available to launch, and more the infrastructure that allows it to show me YouTube videos without ads and skipping sponsored content going away and making launching the app pointless.
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Jul 3, 2023 18:44
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Konar posted:Peace is only for those who can shell out $10 per month
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Poohs Packin posted:Going going, back back, to mIRC does anyone else still occasionally use irc and/or soulseek to get obscure files? I definitely peaked back in the 00s
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Jul 3, 2023 18:49
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I do the same. 7€ as a student is not too bad.
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Jul 3, 2023 18:50
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I use Soulseek a lot. There's a lot of music I like that isn't available in physical formats or digitally, especially like weird Soviet era psych rock or Japanese 80s goth stuff etc. It's quite active.
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Jul 3, 2023 18:51
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Heath posted:weird Soviet era psych rock i am intrigued and wish to subscribe to your newsletter
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HonorableTB posted:i am intrigued and wish to subscribe to your newsletter Here's one I've been enjoying lately
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