I’m actually subscribed to Mycology@mander.xyz, it’s the only community I’ve found so far. However it sounds like I need to check out the other communities at mander.xyz to see what they offer!

A couple of my hobbies that I’ve seen barely getting started here… photography and mycology. There’s a lot to explore in both without getting wrapped up in religion or politics.

Would we even be able to communicate with anyone? Despite it being an English-speaking country, the language has seen a major shift in the last thousand years.

If language wasn’t a barrier, I’d probably completely screw up history. I’m descended from both Scottish and Norwegian families so it would be tough to pick a side. Once I did, well I’m a bit of an expert on trebuchets with some experience in blacksmithing so I’m sure I could make some friends pretty quickly. Add in some knowledge of electricity and maybe I could even make myself out to be a wizard.

Oh sure, I wasn’t dissing the name idea, just saying the community aspect will probably be more important to building up a new “front page of the internet”. I’ve looked at a couple others (I think Voat most recently?) each time reddit is “about to crash”, but being part of the feidiverse is what instantly caught my attention here, and I’m hoping more and more people realize what that can mean for them.

In the long run, does the name really matter? Slashdot, Digg, Fark, Reddit… they’re all somewhat meaningless names but people flocked to each platform because they provided a community and realtime information about what is happening in the world. I participated in more discussions during my first week on Mastodon than I did the entire time I was on Twitter because it felt like talking with friends and neighbors – a feeling the bird never provided.

I’ve been getting pretty decent results from torrent magnet for awhile now. Really they just seem to collect listings from other servers, but their status of each torrent has been pretty decent.

They always seemed to have the active episodes seeded well enough, but every tracker should go through their inventory to update the current status on a timely basis. I didn’t really think it was too much to ask that a file I started downloading a year ago, which had a couple dozen other people attempting to download, should have been marked as having zero active seeds in that time?

One thing I REALLY hope doesn’t make it into the clone… Rarbg made a point of claiming every single entry was seeded, despite the fact that pretty much anything more than a few months old was in fact not seeded and could only be obtained if another user came back. If you wanted to grab a TV show that had ended a couple years ago, you could bet that many episodes had a number of peers listed who were hoping it would be seeded again, but they never were. I guess I should clear out that stuff from my client now, but I actually have entries that have been waiting for up to two years because I couldn’t find them anywhere else.

So if any of the devs are reading this thread, please don’t insult your users in this way. Rarbg eventually became my last resort for finding downloads since I knew I couldn’t trust if anything was seeded, despite the high quality of the files that were represented when you could get them.

One of many newbies here, but your post makes me wonder… is there a way to link my lemmy and mastodon accounts? Would I then see the same feeds on both interfaces?