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Cake day: October 23rd, 2024

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  • There are rss bots that post stuff on lemmy, like for hackernews. And then as another user mentioned there are some servers like 50501 that mirror reddit and cross post to lemmy.

    I think the general problem with such things is… they post a lot of shit. Sure the top content within a community -might- be interesting but you’re also going to get pointless junk that just fills up the fediverse. Not to mention the other issues with lack of interaction. I think the unfortunate reality is that the long term best thing for the community is hand curating content and posting it yourself. I say unfortunate because that’s more work than a bot, but you’ll be better able to grow a community. Plus some people like me will just block any bot i see because they generally are a waste of my time






  • When i was a teen this happened to me. The date was arranged by a family friend with his nieces plus me and my friend to make it a double blind date. We decided to take the girls out to a cheap fast food place and pocket the rest of the money that was given to us. Except the girls ended up both being really cool so we agreed to go bowling after dinner. I kept in touch with one of them for a few years and we went out a few more times on our own.

    Nothing to be embarrassed by imo. Sometimes we need to try new things and try to have a good time. Who knows, it may be better than you think.