Hadnā€™t realized how reliant upon Reddit Iā€™d become for news and interesting things until after it turned to shit and I quit it. Iā€™ve rediscovered RSS for ex., using reader apps to scan sources directly and read without all the noiseā€”that actually came from someoneā€™s recommendation here in the comments. Iā€™ve found several new sites with deep, knowledgeable articles and discussions, like https://theconversation.com/us (free! No ads! Also discovered through the comments here), and my engagement with articles and their sources has gone WAY up. Iā€™ve stopped reading garbage comment sections, too, and Iā€™m just feeling better mentally as a result, disengaging from the endless, low effort memes/jokes and the mean, toxic comments*. Anyone else?

(Thanks again, adminsā€”really enjoying and appreciating how Beehaw is run!)

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    Iā€™ve noticed Iā€™m spending more time looking at content that I actually want to engage with.

    Iā€™ve also been on a huge FOSS hyper-fixation for the past week after replacing reddit with Lemmy. Iā€™ve stopped using Youtube in favour of an open-source front end (Piped), I finally ditched Windows as my main OS and set up EndeavourOS, found an open-source Spotify front-end for desktop (psst) as well as an alternative for mobile (ViMusic).

    If anyone has any other open-source software to recommend, hit me up!

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      If youā€™re on Android, take a look at f-droid. Kind of like Google Play Store, but for FOSS.

      Ive been using Unraid (not FOSS), and there are a Ton of FOSS containers that I play around with all the time. I have one for budgeting, hosting a website, updating Dynamic DNS (website), and a whole bunch of others.

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        I love it when Iā€™m already using something open source without even knowing itā€™s open source! Joplin is a great recommendation, Iā€™ve always struggled finding note taking apps that strike a good balance between power and convenience.

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      Ummmā€¦

      I too have (now) found the new front end! Woot woot!

      And now I need to check out ViMusicā€¦

      You bad person who has taken more of my time! Thanks šŸ˜€