the chosts of the chown


Dire Directory
Chaotic Catalogue
Librarian At Work


some reblogs from 18+ pages


unaffiliated with @staff


RSS-feeds
@RSS-feeds
Source siteCohost pageTopic
Astronomy Picture of the Daycohost.org/​APoD‑feedFrom NASA! "Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer"
BlenderNation
Education
cohost.org/​BlenderNation-Education‑feedUser-submitted video and written tutorials for Blender3D
Chips and Cheesecohost.org/​Chips‑and‑Cheese‑feedCheap Complex Devices (weeklyish microprocessor CPU / GPU / SOC technical reviews)
The Future Firecohost.org/​The‑Future‑Fire‑feed"Social, Political & Speculative Cyber-fiction"
Hackadaycohost.org/​Hackaday‑feedHardware hacking
Lobste.rscohost.org/​Lobsters‑feedProgramming & tech news
The London Review of Bookscohost.org/​LRB‑feed"Literary review publishing essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkers"
Metafiltercohost.org/​Metafilter‑feedA 1999‑era community weblog
Quanta Magazinecohost.org/​Quanta‑Magazine‑feedPopular science and maths magazine
Two Stop Bitscohost.org/​twostopbits‑feedRetro computing & gaming

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in reply to @RSS-feeds's post:

Can you reuse the tags from the sources in their cohost posts? I have a number of lobsters tags hidden but still have to see them here on cohost and it would be nice to avoid them here as well (#ai, etc). Might also be good to tag them with #lobste.rs and #metafilter.com or somesuch, in case someone wants to avoid site-wide discussions/references to them.

I know you said in the Two Stop Bits announcement that you don't want to spam the cohost tags feed, maybe that's specific to Two Stop Bits, but for metafilter and lobsters, they do a pretty good job of keeping the tag counts low and not super consistent (so not a lot of the same things in a row).

I don't think it matters much for NASA or whatever but I would be careful for doing this for blogs unless people are submitting their own blogs for the bot. A lot of people are not going to want their blog posts copied wholecloth to a social media site like this, I know I wouldn't. It's not quite the same as using an RSS reader in that regard.

I'm not going to add any feed which would expose someone to a large audience they weren't expecting, this is meant for news sites or public forums intended for general readership.

It started as a Cohost feature request before i realised i could just make it myself and save staff the effort, so my apologies there wasn't a written policy about what won't be added, i didn't realise one was needed. Thanks for raising the issue!

Thanks for writing and publishing that policy! I personally was previously assuming that I could use this similarly to how I use other feedreaders, and it's good to understand that you specifically want this to be a way to encourage "conversation starters and places to gather around special interest news". Thank you!

It never occurred to me that I needed to put a notice on my blog that said "please don't make a social media account that reposts all my posts in full"

I'm not gonna sue anyone here (it didn't even happen to me in the first place) it just seems like...idk for lack of a better word tacky?