TL/DR: bookmark this blog, use my sidebar to keep up-to-date on other interesting blogs
I received a message from Reddit yesterday, congratulating me on my "7th cake day".
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| Happy Birthday to the Ground |
It comes at a time when the platform is making changes to its API with potentially huge consequences for the platform. You may be aware of the shutdown/blackout/general strike of many subs, and of John Oliver getting sexy in protest... if you're not, please use your search engine of choice to find out more.
Anyway, as a consequence of this "shutdown" I ended up accidentally scrolling through the other OSR subreddit (the one that says "no drama! no politics!" but should probably read "no subredditors! No interesting posts!") because that had elected not to shut down, and within seconds found out that the sub owner had quit reddit, leading to much hand-wringing that ultimately spilled over into the proper r/osr sub.
I'm under no illusions that this is in anyway comparable to the eradication of Google+, though for some people it's far worse. For those of you who weren't there (or those like me, who tried to be at the party but were just stood wandering around empty suburbs knocking on doors of the houses where we could hear banging music but not getting in) it's hard to fully grok how catastrophic that was (though we will listen patiently while you go glassy-eyed and regale us with your war-stories, grognard).
Despair not! Twitter may be turning into Ayn Rand's playground and Reddit may yet became overrun wth porn-bots, but I have good news!
The blogosphere is still here, as is Chris McDowall ... and he is here to show you how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGR-XKFhZ5g&t=2790s
Links
The "good" OSR subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/osr/
Possible satire?
https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/14awznz/meta_sub_blackout_would_be_more_detrimental_to/
How blogs work: a tutorial video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGR-XKFhZ5g&t=2790s
The blogs have always been the most interesting thing going on in the OSR world, and they're still really good.
ReplyDeleteI fully concur
DeleteI have a separate sidebar bloglist serving as a list of updates for blogs I am finding most interesting and if it isn't enough I peruse 'DIY and Dragons' bloglist siderbar for additional inspirations. In a way it works like G+ circles, somewhat.
ReplyDeleteThis my approach, more or less: using other blogs' sidebars as launchpads into blogs I might otherwise miss. My only issue with this is how poorly it translates to mobile/cellular, and I'm spending an ever-decreasing ampount of time vieiweng blogs on desktop browser so I might need a new approach.
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