Some personal blogs that I like (mine included), all of them are indie and as far as I know they all are maintained by a single person (so they don’t post several times a day!):

• A Shroud of Thoughts
• Alex’s Blog
• Ben Werdmuller
• Elizabeth Tai
• Felix Crux
• GioCities
• James’ Coffee Blog
• Jeremy Cherfas
• Jo’s blog
• KE Garland
• Mark Sutherland
• Maya’s Blog
• OpenPLUTO
• Sara Jaksa
• The Maven Game
• Tracy Durnell
• Writing at Large

Two websites that I use quite a lot to find cool personal blogs/RSS feeds:

• Ye olde blogroll is a hand-curated list of interesting personal blogs in English
• The IndieWeb webring is a webring where people with indie blogs (ie. no substacks, no big websites, etc.) can sign up to get more visibility, it’s a real treasure trove

Signal >>>>>>>> WhatsApp > texting > Telegram >>>>>>> Messenger.

I read them around that age and loved them. And I’ll second @[email protected]: make them read Percy Jackson!

I also really like the Akata trilogy (Akata Witch is the first tome).

They have a much bigger catalogue outside of English, I believe

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] etc.

mina le’s videos are always so good!

Music: I have a few CDs that are in need of a CD player and also have Jellyfin (no server, only local) to listen to my downloaded music on my TV (which mostly comes from Bandcamp). For my phone, I have the Bandcamp app, it’s basic but it does what I need from it.

Podcasts: via Podcast Addict on my phone (unfortunately no browser version, but that’s gotten less important with the years as I spend less time on my computer and the time I do spend requires enough focus that I don’t listen to podcasts), during sports sessions (podcast for warmup & cooldown, audiobook for the session itself), commutes, walking, cleaning & cooking.

You should post here: [email protected]

This is not a technical support community.

(but also i’ve had the same issue since the last lemmy update, i suppose a bug made its way in there.)

Sounds like an issue with Jerboa more than with Lemmy tbh if you can’t properly block a community. Log in to the website and block the community there.

My suggestion would be to back it up on the Internet archive manually once in a while.

I really liked this read! I blog, and I like my blog, but sometimes get stressed out because I feel like nobody’s reading it (I’ve removed all analytics on purpose because I used to get obsessed with them). Blogging for the simple act of blogging, and not for engagement, is the best!

The men around them.

Homemade burgers are healthy. The problem is the absurd amount of salt and low-quality fats that restaurants put in their food.

As said above, likes are virtually useless. They’re more like “noticeable bookmarks”. Mastodon etiquette is to boost rather than like, if you enjoy a toot, and that’s also how it was when the Twitter timeline was chronological and didn’t include likes, a very long time ago.

Mr. Teatime is really good.

Does Rust count as a villain? Can’t say he brings much good to the series as a person!

Being LGBTQ+, or not white, or not a man, or disabled.

Well:

• I’m annoyed at calling people who dislike an app and choose another website “refugees”
• I’m happy that we’re going to have more activity
• I hope more instances will be built and maintained, because I don’t think the large number of new members can be moderated effectively if they keep flocking to the same handful of instances
• When in doubt, I hope moderators will be too strict rather than not enough, especially in the beginning to make sure the behavioural expectations are very clear

Do you federate with Beehaw? I have a 404 every time I look for a blahaj.zone community from Beehaw :(

Firefox user here.

• Bitwarden password manager
• Bypass Paywalls Clean
• Clear URLs remove URL trackers
• Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
• Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
• Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
• Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
• Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
• RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
• Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
• Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
• uBlock Origin
• ViolentMonkey for userscripts

Extensions to be helpful to other people:

• Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
• Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
• Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.

Fediverse extensions:

• FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
• Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
• PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you’re watching is also on PeerTube

Youtube extensions:

• Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn’t change the visible quality)
• Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
• DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
• SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos