Of course, it all depends on the context. A tutorial for a specific knitting stitch can be done in under 5 minutes, other stuff not so much! There was also an interesting thread somewhere yesterday asking why don't people use their subscription feed on YT and the answers were a good representation of the user base here, ie: most do use it and avoid the algo at all costs! So I think we're all on the same page here, we search and use YT in a way that is most efficient but not the most common :)

I had a whole list of Blogger sites with full albums, bootlegs and mixtapes in all genres. It was wild and fun.

Breadcrumbs that actually work were nice.

C'est un deep cut.

In the csv from Reddit it shows I had over 5100 comments. I ran PowerDeleteSuite and it completely erased all my comments. I kept my account and I go back on Reddit once in a while to check and only once I had to delete a stray comment that popped back up. Otherwise my comment and post history (12 y.o. acct) is gone.

GReader was awesome. I met people from all around the world on there, some that I still keep in touch with to this day. Yes, there are alternatives and I've used some of them, old reader and Inoreader in particular I think offer the best experience relative to GReader (without the social aspect). You can't recapture the past, Reader is dead and gone but I think killing it was Google's biggest blunder. An incredible lack of foresight on their partas stated in the article.

Getting your feeds the way you want them is great. But interacting with people that are actually reading the content you share and discussing it with you is a whole different experience. I'm not talking news articles necessarily but blog posts, scientific papers, essays, etc. Anyways, yeah, I loved the damn thing and still miss what it was to this day.

I was thinking about exactly this last night. I feel like the apps we used (12 years on Reddit, with RIF for as long as I remember) were Reddit. The apps and the way we customized them created our own little Reddit universe. I'm sad for all the devs that worked on their applications and put so much work into them also. But I've been off Reddit for a couple of weeks and I absolutely do not miss it.

It's not a long article and the topic is interesting enough to spend the 10 minutes it takes to read it IMO

This is beautiful work, wow! Winding yarn is so relaxing. Doing it with great tools is even more satisfying. I say it's totally necessary :)

For sure. But there are ways to make it more affordable and sustainable. Seconds, OOAKs, estate sales, unravelling thrift finds, etc. If I was listening to all the yarn shops and designers I follow, I would have a collection of 250$ sweaters! (I'm not saying I don't have any mind you...)

And the puns, jfc the never ending stupid puns.

Agreed. Unfortunately on my local sub (just a bit over 250k users) the mods are the ones trying to push for continued protest through malicious compliance. Most users are completely clueless and find the protest cringe and useless. I've gone back twice since the blackout, only to voice my opinions and it was not well received. A lot of people just don't see a problem with having the platform getting revenue off their own content. I don't think I'll ever go back to Reddit and will most likely delete my account after 12 years.