You're not that far off, actually. I consider us similar to a modern take on usenet/NNTP. The UX should be a bit cleaner than those things, but I'm function, similar.
The boss of the Project is Shane Allen, and he works for London Trust Media. (LTM owns a few things, including Private Internet Access, the VPN provider) The initial targeted userbase is those who are willing to put in effort; content creators and curators especially. beyond that there is no specific target though I suspect with the way our platform is designed will most interest those who believe in free speech and are interested in technology, but we hope to not be limited to that scope. We host our platform in the US jurisdiction and will police it as such, and anyone running their own node must police theirs according to their local laws.
I'm really happy to see you're still doing these. I've been pretty out of the loop for a while now. Life is crazy. Long live #todayinhistory! I'm actually starting a podcast called Today in History. I should post it up here when I have it officially launched.
Paywall.
That would be amazing!
Paywall. yay.
Thanks. Haha.
This is great! You have such awesome #TodayInHistory posts.
Wow, this is a good one.
This is a great excerpt. Thanks!
That's awesome. Haha.
I love this.
I should try that. That is a lot more work than my morning coffee reading being linked here. Maybe I'm lazy?
Ooooh, nice. I work in aviation.
Thanks for that!
I can see what you're saying, but I'm still surprised most people don't share it or even comment on the events being discussed. Maybe I'm the only one who finds the events worth talking about; perhaps I should select better events. A couple of the posts have garnered lots of discussion: I suppose those two were hot-button issues, and they were almost a year ago.
Using https://hubski.com/global (global link, top right) is helpful for finding new tags. And glad you found #TodayInHistory! Welcome aboard!
That's good to hear! Make sure you're using #TodayInHistory and not #TIH: I was advised to abandon the latter because it wasn't descriptive enough. I have tons of sites. Most major news outlets have a 'Today in History' or 'This Day in History' subsection, and there are sites dedicated specifically to daily history. I usually boil it down to a wikipedia article and post that. Here's a brief list: - http://www.todayinliterature.com/ - http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries - http://www.on-this-day.com/ - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/today-in-history/index.html?SITE=AP - http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory - http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/today-history-36352392 And some subreddits, if you're a dirty redditor: /r/TodayInHistory, /r/100YearsAgo, /r/200YearsAgo, and lots more on the sidebars of those subs. I usually just snag the first thing that makes me go 'Huh, interesting' and post the wikipedia article about it. If the wikipedia article isn't great, I post the reporting source.
Hahaha. Good point. Not many do.
Ha! Funny that you bring that up.
Care to share the caveats?
Awesome! I'll be gone before long, I think.
voat has been crap since day 1. I won't be caught dead there. I don't think Reddit has changed as much as some people say; it's changed some, but I'm almost ten years older than I was when I started on Reddit. I've changed.
What a lunatic.
Haha, I think I did. I need to reddit less. I used to have 4 defaults, including /r/music, and /r/politics and all kinds of medium level subs on top of that... I've slowed back to just /r/gadgets, /r/history and /r/politics. I'm considering going to just /r/gadgets one of these days, and that's mainly because I am the top (2nd technically, but boss has been inactive for years) mod and I built the subreddit from 10k people to the default it is now. It eats my time and my mind up, though. I'm so frustrated with the admins and the website in general, and it shouldn't bother me anywhere close to as much as it does. I do have a massive amount of time invested... I have written tons of bots and tools and even run my own website dedicated to things like that. (http://noeatnosleep.me) I have to figure out when I should put it down and why, and then do it.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who feels this way. It's good confirmation for me. Also, I didn't realize you were a redditor/moderator. Heh. I feel like i should have known that, somehow. Do you ever get on snoonet?
That was my first thought as well when i read this.
But I don't want to read any more Card! =(
Alvin is what drove me away from Card as well. When compared to the Ender series it really clued you in on how exactly Card views himself. The similarities of Alvin and Ender are poignant. It's like Card considers himself a tortured and lonely genius with no friends because he's a genius.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. It's good, but very similar to the others.