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Is it hard to give up your niche reddit communities? I may have a solution. Kind of. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by cih@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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So, this isn't meant to be a "guide" or anything but I thought it could be helpful to some.

Find yourself an RSS feed reader (e.g. Feedbin).
Grab your subreddit link. (Example: reddit.com/r/museum)
Add .rss to the end of that link. (Example: reddit.com/r/museum.rss)
Add your subreddit RSS feeds to your feed reader.

This way, you can keep reading reddit without having to visit it. You will still need an account to participate, of course.

But I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to participate and keep feeding reddit content for free?"

You are what makes reddit what it is. If you can be yourself elsewhere, why waste your precious time on reddit?

You deserve better.

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[–] luciole@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so good to see Beehaw taking off. I hope it endures. I'm giving it a little more time then I'm closing account on all corporate social media for good.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hope beehaw overtakes lemmy.ml. Seems like a really nice instance.

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been thinking about it. I do hope Beehaw grows enormously to be vibrant and diverse and lively, but it’s OK too if in the end it’s not the ultimate, humongous, massive instance. Maybe there’s such a thing as a community that becomes too big. There’s something precious about "human scale" places.

[–] feetongrass@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

There is definitely a thing as a community that becomes too big. I really liked that concept in 'Sapiens'. For a community to grow much bigger than a couple hundred, there needs to be a common belief, or a common enemy. That is why religion was a crucial element 2000 years ago. Right now, beehaw/lemmy is growing rapidly because of that common enemy, reddit, but the real test is once the reddit thing dies down one way or another.

[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, but the growth should be at a consistent, manageable level because if too many users haven't quite comprehended the ethos of beehaw it may start to lose its unique charm.