Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "s|b" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:10:18 +0200 Organization: XXII Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: sb.nospam@belgacom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net kNMZ9Zh2YVnMAo1pCKeY0wKsZTzWJJi3uE5MDhT7NTPJyZpzu1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+ZvO2mE+32Wb8aEuFJMG+W6LWPA= sha256:MkP/mmX/e/ULetqvQRHO0eeJnpKQrIBTwk4y/m/jELg= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: yes X-Face: j0\WO?Dcjo^V#d7Q,H$9^8N{Z|fy50vxQkToel)jNR3hmCMV8kai(fMVJ:Yk}q?t<:xHu2D )?CJ[c|zu]%I!fKb7-4~$&Mx|GT=>ux^*,A:5Cdek,y4A(DSX=oXRv7-)/AcgHiWf Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89380 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