Hi all. I’ve been building my own little fediverse setup at dboft.com to fit how I like to read, and I’m grateful for all the work and community that makes something like this possible. Looking forward to being here with you all!

  • kalman@dboft.comOP
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    9 hours ago

    Thanks. You’re right, and thats on me. Most of what you’re seeing comes from the news feeds I set up to pull in links, and they lean heavily American. I’m also EU myself, so it isn’t what I want the place to be either.

    Another conversation I had here on lemmy made me realize I’ve been running dboft as a link aggregator when I actually enjoy … you know… discussion. So I’m rethinking how the instance is set up, and I want to put the focus on conversation, starting with !superorganism@dboft.com. It’s built around Nate Hagens’s idea of the global economy as an energy-hungry superorganism, and I’d love for threads like that to be what rises to the top rather than headlines.

    If that sounds like your kind of thing, come visit.

      • kalman@dboft.comOP
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        5 hours ago

        Ha, to be clear: the site isn’t built through his lens, it’s just a spot I’m going to hang around in. Probably talking to myself for a while, but the door’s open. If you’ve read or listened to him, come chat! Here I am dropping Hagens name… as an energy-hungry creature, while building algorithms that connect similar stories on this site. My defence…it runs almost entirely on solar.

        • kudra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          yeah, I understand. But as Nate says, sometimes you may need to use the devils tools to do Gaia’s work… making stories that fit his lens easier to find on the Fediverse is a great service 😊