kafkad

Sadly, I think you do need something other than just RSS to surface interesting content. HN is good for technical stuff but Reddit and Twitter are the only ones that seem to do this well RN -- alternatives for both simply don't have enough users.

For now I'm using Twitter more -- I had left but I'm rebuilding my lists.

I'd have talked to my CC provider. You might want to try OkCupid -- I've had decent luck with it. Never banned or even moderated, in over a decade of use.

(But, still the search continues for a hot hacker GF ;))

>Kind of ironic that the mods of an atheism subreddit were trying to act like gods.

Sounds like some kind of involuntary BDSM (dom) situation.

People like that are why I prefer to call myself agnostic.

> It started asking for email verification so I just didn't go back

I had an account I lost because I used guerillamail[1] and didn't save the unscrambled seed used to "login".

When I was young I didn't have the CLI skills for IRC, are there any good networks left?

[1] https://www.guerrillamail.com/

>If you post in a subreddit that the subreddit you are posting in does not like, you are banned

Yeah but that's usually individual subreddits, not the whole site.

The larger subs are trash fires, but I've found several where you could actually discuss things. Subreddits for shows, technical topics, etc tended to have less drama.

It makes me sad, because there are many individual communities on Reddit that are quite wholesome and useful -- I've found that setting up multireddits and sorting by "top" with a time period of 24 hours is a good way to surface infosec news for example.

I had migrated over when Google killed reader, and moving back, it's overwhelming and distracting to have so many sources marked as unread -- the voting was useful for separating wheat from chaff.