Some personal blogs that I like (mine included), all of them are indie and as far as I know they all are maintained by a single person (so they don’t post several times a day!):

• A Shroud of Thoughts
• Alex’s Blog
• Ben Werdmuller
• Elizabeth Tai
• Felix Crux
• GioCities
• James’ Coffee Blog
• Jeremy Cherfas
• Jo’s blog
• KE Garland
• Mark Sutherland
• Maya’s Blog
• OpenPLUTO
• Sara Jaksa
• The Maven Game
• Tracy Durnell
• Writing at Large

Two websites that I use quite a lot to find cool personal blogs/RSS feeds:

• Ye olde blogroll is a hand-curated list of interesting personal blogs in English
• The IndieWeb webring is a webring where people with indie blogs (ie. no substacks, no big websites, etc.) can sign up to get more visibility, it’s a real treasure trove

Signal >>>>>>>> WhatsApp > texting > Telegram >>>>>>> Messenger.

I read them around that age and loved them. And I’ll second @LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca: make them read Percy Jackson!

I also really like the Akata trilogy (Akata Witch is the first tome).

They have a much bigger catalogue outside of English, I believe

!diy@beehaw.org !diy@slrpnk.net !diy@lemmy.ml etc.

mina le’s videos are always so good!

Music: I have a few CDs that are in need of a CD player and also have Jellyfin (no server, only local) to listen to my downloaded music on my TV (which mostly comes from Bandcamp). For my phone, I have the Bandcamp app, it’s basic but it does what I need from it.

Podcasts: via Podcast Addict on my phone (unfortunately no browser version, but that’s gotten less important with the years as I spend less time on my computer and the time I do spend requires enough focus that I don’t listen to podcasts), during sports sessions (podcast for warmup & cooldown, audiobook for the session itself), commutes, walking, cleaning & cooking.

You should post here: !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

This is not a technical support community.

(but also i’ve had the same issue since the last lemmy update, i suppose a bug made its way in there.)

Sounds like an issue with Jerboa more than with Lemmy tbh if you can’t properly block a community. Log in to the website and block the community there.

My suggestion would be to back it up on the Internet archive manually once in a while.

I really liked this read! I blog, and I like my blog, but sometimes get stressed out because I feel like nobody’s reading it (I’ve removed all analytics on purpose because I used to get obsessed with them). Blogging for the simple act of blogging, and not for engagement, is the best!

The men around them.

Homemade burgers are healthy. The problem is the absurd amount of salt and low-quality fats that restaurants put in their food.

It’s so hot outside, I’m almost only making salads. Yesterday was:

• 1 cucumber, diced
• 150g cherry tomatoes, halved
• 100g feta cheese, crumbled
• 1 peach, diced
• Balsamic vinegar

Most of my days are a variation around that until things get fresher (peach can be replaced with a yellow or red pepper depending on what my veggie dealer has in stock).

(AbeBooks is owned by Amazon - bookshop.org might be a better alternative.)

Nooot as legal as the other alternatives here, https://libgen.is has a gigantic catalogue (if you know what you’re looking for) to download ebooks from.

you’ve been an absolutely wonderful admin. please take all the time you need and come back when you’re ready, if you’re ready; don’t come back too soon and burn out again. take care!

Communities don’t need to have a single specific language and being able to share in our own language in a general community, especially outside of English, would be amazing. I know I’ve posted some content to book-related communities in French and was glad not to post to an empty French community, and I got some interaction on this.

Agree with Flaky that we really need a default language choice to not have to set it up every time, though.

I’m committed to open source (or at the very least indie dev) more than to a single platform.