And I don't think I'll be going back. The difference is night and day. The tone of Reddit has gone from "Straight white guys who think Martin Luther King ended racism so why are black people still whining so much?" to full out Nazi since the refugee crisis and I can't take it anymore. The quantity of posts here seems to be much lower but the quality is many galaxies ahead. Hopefully this is the start of something good. Cheers Hubski!
Well. I spend most of my time at work desperately looking for anything remotely newsworthy that happened in the tiny shithole of a town I moved to for this job so that I can put it into the radio station's newscast.I haven't had to cover a church bake sale yet, but I've come terrifyingly close.
Know what you should do? Get drunk, binge watch "The Andy Griffith Show," and then write about that church bakesale like it's a Mayberry event to be remembered. You'd have a piece of art on your hands. I'm sure.I haven't had to cover a church bake sale yet, but I've come terrifyingly close.
I dabble in a lot of different social media sites, reddit being one of them. I've all but abandoned reddit only partly because of the pervasive groupthink. I figure I'm smart enough to sniff out that kind of thing, just as a savvy user can detect shills and most other frauds. In fact I've severely downgraded reddit mainly due to the extreme immaturity and insecurity the users there exhibit. The users there don't merely disagree with you. They ignore facts and sources presented. They insult you without knowing a thing about you and usually also without knowing much about the topic at hand. They get their friends to gang up on you to do the same, then make whole new comment threads to mock and insult you. Then they stalk your posting history to make further personal attacks. Pleas to board moderators and site administrators to stop individual and group harassment go completely unanswered, probably because they are too busy focusing on problems of institutional harassment of entire subpopulations. Witness /r/fatpeoplehate. Banning that board was the right thing to do, and it was a good first step in the process; let look how much drama and strife that created. I've recently become wary of some of the other sites I visit owing to reddit refugees migrating in groups. For instance, voat.co looks to be a good alternative on the surface. But after a few minutes of looking around, you see threads like this and you realize that all the worst users which reddit tried to eliminate with their recent rule changes went to voat where there are (as yet) no such rules. Hubski I find to be mature and thoughtful, which is something I value very much.
and maybe, just maybe, your name is Chris... unless you pull a nowaypablo whose name is NOT pablo, no way.
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I bit the bullet and bought one. If the numbers 31, 32 and 33 are pulled, I'm doing alright. I forget the others. I've basically promised it all away already :)
Much slower pace here. But that works well IMO as you can make a comment even days later and it will not be drowned out. Welcome.
Hey! Welcome to Hubski. Make yourself at home.
Definitely share feedback if you have any ideas how people can more easily ease into the site. Fresh perspectives help. You might want to follow #devski. It tracks some of our development. #blog.hubski has our general updates. Btw, when entering a tag on a post, if you put an @ after the tag, it personalizes it. That is, if I add art@, it becomes #art.mk, a tag that only I can use. Oh, finally you have style options on the settings page in your profile. Dark is the second most popular.
Have you checked out this page yet? It has the majority of the more commonly used tags, making things easier to find. Also, I've found that following users who have interests that might interest me seems to be infinitely more worthwhile to my feed than following individual tags. Though, to be fair, this site is so slow that I can keep up to date with what's being posted just by reloading global every few hours.
yea I noticed it was sorta slow around here. Thats not necessarily bad though, on reddit if you comment the next day people treat you like a crazy person. i've been wandering around looking for more technology stuff. Not a whole lof ot *nix bros or bash or python going on from the looks of things. Theres always hackernews for such things though.
I'm a dev by education and by trade, but I usually rely on hackernews and a plethora of subreddits for that sort of stuff. There's definitely not a whole lot of it here, and I don't think I'll ever feel knowledgeable enough about it to comment much. Major impostor syndrome. Anyway, welcome! Hope you like it here. It's definitely a different place than reddit, and most of us hope it stays that way.
This is one of hubski's really positive traits in my opinion. For example - I know rd95 is a car guy. If I followed #cars, I would see all kinds of cool posts from him. But HOLY HELL this guy posts a ton of interesting other stuff like this: and this! I mean seriously - this! I just had to look at my profile - I only follow 24 tags... I follow 90 people. Your mileage may vary, but for me, the number one feature I enjoy most about hubski (can I even call it a feature?) is that by following people, I get to know people. You get this more rounded view of people. thenewgreen isn't just some guy who is in to music because I see his posts on #music. He happens to be a top tier salesman which I know because I follow HIM - not just some aspect of him. lil isn't just some poet via #poetry. She's an amazing powerhouse of a woman who I find hilarious and edgy. On the flipside - maybe I find someone to be a real jerkface.... but damn if they don't post interesting things to some other random tag. I can follow that tag and leave the rest of them behind. Anyway - enough of my ramblings. Welcome. I'm following you now, so post some interesting stuff! I look forward to getting to know you. (one last ramble - don't be offended if some day I stop following you. It happens. Once, TNG unfollowed everyone just to shake things up and get a new feed).following people does seem like an interesting way to find things I wouldn't know about other wise.
I'm the total opposite, actually. I follow #tags, not people, for the most part. I only follow people if they have had consistently great content and comments, and I've interacted with them a bunch. I should still probably follow more people.
Shoot, on here you can revive post on threads that are a week old and they'll come back to life. Heck, it's not too uncommon to see people reference threads that are literally years old. It's actually a lot of fun to see what people can dig up. Actually, a lot of people on here talk computers and coding. If you scrounge around old threads a bit, you can easily pick out who they are. That said, post some stuff you find interesting on here. It'll probably bring some of them out of the woodwork and might attract more people to the subject.yea I noticed it was sorta slow around here. Thats not necessarily bad though, on reddit if you comment the next day people treat you like a crazy person.
i've been wandering around looking for more technology stuff. Not a whole lof ot *nix bros or bash or python going on from the looks of things. Theres always hackernews for such things though.