@phario
@lemmy.caThis is a bit of a random shout to the Fediverse.
I would have always ranked my favourite podcasts as Zach Lowe’s and Bill Simmons’, in that order.
Over the last year, I have to say that Paul George’s podcast (Podcast P) has been hitting it out of the park. He’s had amazing guests recently, going from Stephen A Smith to Klay and everything in between.
Two more notes. He has great chemistry with his two cohosts, who tread the line between being helpful and entertaining but not annoying.
Second, PG is just super gracious and cool. He’s not arrogant like Dray or a know-it-all like JJ Reddick. He’s just a cool cat. He’s always trying to encourage the younger generation, he’s self-deprecating, and just a kind soul.
Go check it out.
I’ve been using a Sofle split for almost a year, probably in about 30-40% of my typing. Despite tweaking my setup as best I can, I still find the experience difficult.
One issue that seems to have a big effect is that I still think of the position of mouse in my dominant hand and keyboard with my other hand as useful.
I use it often for everything from casual surfing to editing. For example during editing you’re often selecting text with the mouse and doing some minor editing with your other hand. Split keyboards seem to really remove this efficient option since both your hands need to be used most times.
A lot of people who extol the benefits of split keyboards are comparing to traditional keyboards when your tasks are static.
It seems to me that over the last two weeks, the Lemmy experience has been worsening. My front page and communities are filled with Reddit re-posting bots.
While this gives off a feeling of being active, it’s like a ghost town invaded by AI.
But if I block these bots, I also take the risk that I’m unable to participate in actual conversations between non-bot Lemmy participants.
There seems to be an annoying assumption in Lemmy communities that the best way to grow is to duplicate how it worked on Reddit.
Reddit’s r/nba has hundreds of thousands or millions of readers. Their system can support lots of game-day threads because they have the numbers.
I log onto this community and I’m turned off. There are too many bot threads and not enough critical mass of discussion. Before the bots, it was better because there were only a few threads so at least people felt there was something worth participating in.
I guess I could block the bot, but this doesn’t fix the issue for the community. I suggest that these game threads can be merged into groupings. Perhaps just one thread for all the day’s games.
The point is to grow the community with the current audience in mind, not to assume that what works for Reddit is going to immediately work for Lemmy.