Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations

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On 31 Jul 2026 18:54:30 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> People love to hate Reddit but the truth is r/linuxmint has much more 
> traffic that alt.os.linux.mint.  The focused subreddits are not bad. 
> General ones like the local one tend to be trash. 

I've been on Reddit. At first I subscribed to a couple of decent
subreddits like r/raspberrypi, r/pihole or r/GooglePixel, then
r/Tumpstweets (for a laugh), but then I started to add more and more,
like r/Europe, r/BuyFromEU, r/Belgium, which is a cesspool. Everybody
tries be 'the funny one', even when serious questions are asked. Even
worse, there's r/Belgium2 which is the same, but more racist.

At one point I got a warning for quoting Trump who said 'grab 'm by the
pussy' and later I got downvoted for correcting someone about Belgian
law (on a non Belgium group), even though I provided a source.

That was it for me. I found a script to delete all my messages (+6.000
by then) and then killed the account.

I had the same experience with Twitter. Fun at first, but then toxic as
hell. Not good for the mental health.

I sometimes take a look at a subreddit, but without an account I'm not
tempted to react anymore. Belgium is thinking of prohibiting access to
social media for children under 13 (even though it's a failure in
Australia). If that happens I'll probably be cut off 100%.

-- 
s|b

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[OT] seeking news server recommendations Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2026-07-30 17:30 +0000
  Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2026-07-30 17:37 +0000
  Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-30 18:39 +0100
  Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-07-30 18:44 +0100
  Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "Stanislav N. aka pztrn" <no@email.please> - 2026-07-30 22:44 +0500
    Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-30 18:52 +0100
      Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "Stanislav N. aka pztrn" <no@email.please> - 2026-07-31 01:33 +0500
  Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-07-30 20:07 +0200
    Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2026-07-31 01:01 +0000
      Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-31 04:36 +0000
        Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-07-31 09:32 +0100
          Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-31 11:53 +0100
            Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-07-31 13:32 +0200
              Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-31 12:41 +0100
              Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-07-31 15:15 +0200
                Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-31 14:35 +0100
                Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-07-31 17:05 +0200
          Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-07-31 15:12 +0200
            Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-31 18:57 +0000
              Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-08-01 13:52 +0200
                Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-01 18:24 +0000
          Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-31 18:54 +0000
            Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2026-08-01 14:10 +0200
              Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-08-01 18:09 +0000

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