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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Boost or US Mobile are the new Mint. Think Boost actually has a chance of hanging around for a while since they are owned by Dish who is building out their own network of towers (think they just hit coverage of 70% of US). They also use both T-Mobile and AT&T for roaming with their rainbow sims, which is extremely rare. US Mobile is a Verizon MVNO… their “unlimited” package has the same priority as post-paid Verizon customers for the first 30gb each month, but I’m afraid they’re eventually going to get bought out by Verizon ala Mint.










  • Absolutely fair points and I already had the concern about being “fair and balanced”. The feeds I’ve added so far are either diverse (Youtube News is a great example: it contains both CNN and Fox News YouTube feeds) or are generally considered neutral (AP News and Reuters).

    When it comes to UFOs and religion I’d have no problem adding them, but would absolutely break those out into their own communities. If someone is super interested in UFOs then they are welcome to subscribe to the UFO community with like minded people. Ultimately I’m trying to keep the number of feeds per community fairly low and make sure they are on-topic.

    All that said I think it’s up to the community to upvote/downvote as they wish. That is really the power of link aggregators like Lemmy and Reddit. Crap gets downvoted into oblivion and the spicy nugs float to the top. Link aggregators do come with their own drawbacks (echo chambers and trolls to name two), but they are very powerful once you’ve found the right communities.

    Thank you for the well wishes! Sorry it’s not right for you, but I really appreciate the feedback to make sure I’m executing this properly.



  • Notorious@lemm.eeOPtoLemmy@lemmy.mlIntroducing Lemmy.link
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    I have plans to open source linkbot once I clean up the code. It was thrown together in a couple of hours yesterday, so it’s not well formatted. However, someone just commented on another post that they had just finished their bot and posted it to GitHub. I haven’t looked into it at all, but you can find the link to that comment here.




  • That’s definitely not the goal. My vision of this project was to simply combine Lemmy + RSS. You get the benefit of news stream from RSS with the community upvotes/downvotes and comments of Lemmy. I had initially tried to set up TT-RSS and Newsblur, but both of them were difficult to set up and this felt like a better solution. I’m also extremely open to adding communities and feeds as requested… absolutely not trying to curate news for people.