Agree. I just got my invite today. BUt now im…concerned.

I use feedspot, but similar results.

Like these sites, i sub to all the things and just prune out junk.

Feedly was my favorite for a while. But they have had their bumps. That said they do more than just RSS and can add feeds that dont support RSS.

I moved to self-hosting my feed aggregator sometime back. For that I use Miniflux.

As per most tech things, though, I don’t think there’s a good end-to-end guide out there (lots of piecemeal ones, though) and having good research skills and being able to fill in the gaps in guides yourself is pretty important.

Yeah for sure. For most non-techy folks using one of the arrs setups or even plex has a pretty steep curve.

It’s why Netflix will continue to make subs.

I think what’s missing from this article is they have had a show or two lately that have been solid. Ie: the Diplomat. And that will drive up subs. But not sure it has the staying power. Folks will flip back to something else when another service drops something good.

What they don’t explain is that you need two accounts (or more) for these to work.

A Usenet account.

An indexer account that is basically a search engine.

You also need a download app like nzbget. And ofc you setup an account on that and plug it into sonarr.

And an account for the nas or storage if it’s not local.

Sonarr searches the index, finds the files, talks to nzbget and says “download that shit for me and put it together”. Nzbget uses the Usenet account to fetch the stuff, assembles the parts and tells sonarr I’m done. Sonarr then renames it and puts it on your nas.

It’s admittedly fairly abstract, even for someone seasoned in systems admin work.

agree on that 100%

Agree. Hoping development makes searching for communities across instances significantly easier.

I have had issues with it over the years. Many will blacklist entire cidr nets for a single bad actor. I get this on my linodes frequently if I proxy traffic through them. Ie: tons of captchas on google/YouTube.

When I ran my own mail it was similar. Often having to spend time getting IPs off rbls and the like because some other node on my subnet was malicious.

In the end, I just moved my email over to workspace. Not ideal. But it works.

One thing I did notice was that as soon as I registered my domain in workspace (but hadn’t even setup mx records or began moving mail) a lot of issues with google immediately stopped, and thus, same with Office.com. I actually ran this way for a while but then google axed freed accounts and I just moved my stuff to them and pay.

Maybe because I use a gTLD? I dunno. But it was a headache.

I feel like the largest site that needs to crumble and create alternatives is YouTube. Well over Reddit or twitter or twitch etc.

It’s expensive from a storage and bandwidth aspect. And having a giant service own all of it is rife for abuse, which happens frequently with how YouTube handles copyright and DMCA.

Couldn’t really tell you. I haven’t done any moderation in many years. And have no knowledge of how their DB system or backups are structured. But make no mistake, Reddit has admin rights and the ability to takeover any sub if they don’t feel the mods are doing a good job, and there’s been precedence for such action, either due to mod abusing and shuttering a sub, or just not engaging at all or even just going afk and abandoning a sub.

I dont think Mods can outright delete comments or submissions, only hide them. Only a user can overwrite and delete their comments. So…unless basically all users started scrubbing comments it would be hard i would guess. And i wouldnt be shocked if they had replicas or DB backups crawled at the page/submission level to roll back off of to protect such an act. Heck Pushshift was doing about that. I really detested that guy for how he handled privacy. Even had people sign up to exemptions and just straight ignored specific requests to have their user pages excluded from crawling.

100%. At best they get a couple days and then it’ll be “okay kids you had your fun, parties over and open up. “

If they don’t new mods will be installed.

Reddit admins will likely just boot the mods and takeover the subreddits. Especially the bigger ones. Heck they may even do that to ones that blackout at all, or past the 14th.

They have threatened and done similar to things like firearm subreddits.

I agree with most of what you said. I would say classifying SVB as a seizure is probably not accurate. The FDIC only came in when it was clear SVB was going to fold and in fact insured far more than the 250k per account guaranteed. Mainly to try and stem a run on midsize banks because

1. Many companies had large holdings, undiversified in these banks

2. The banks were borderline negligent with how they handled those deposits, sticking them all in “safe” government bonds that ruins liquidity.

Once the interest rate on the bonds was lower than the base borrowing rate, no one would buy the bonds instead of just buying new bonds with a much higher guaranteed return.

So, given that, I would say the FDIC instead bailed out the banks. Something they would never do for you or I, or even a business with similar valuation as any of the banks customers.