I personally wish there were more communities - it’s kind of difficult for me to navigate at times when looking for communities especially if they exist in another instance, but otherwise, I have definitely replaced Reddit with this site. I just lurk on Reddit now, don’t upvote or downvote, and just read some stuff that I can’t find over here on my desktop, but here - I am actively engaging. It does feel more chill, and kind of reminds me of Old Internet somehow and I really like how so many people are coming together too to fix bugs and improve the QOL.

Yes, there are actually a lot of developers helping with Lemmy! We have a Philippine admin from here who is helping out with Lemmy as well and conversing with the other helpers (hello, you know who you are!). It’s actually kind of exciting because there are so many people wanting to help out and make this a better place, and all the code is out there for people to see, understand, and improve on.

Smaller communities, more intimate experiences, and overall, the people you’d see here are most likely who won’t accept or allow what Reddit now stands for.

I definitely agree with this, but damn, the upkeep for having an instance of your own can be a strain on your server, though. We have a small instance of ours in order to subscribe to other instances (not just lemmy.world) and in a span of 4 weeks, the database got up to 6 gigs already… can’t imagine how much it would cost to have more than 15 users. Donations would have to be a default setup if people want a particular instance to keep running and not have it become like Reddit, and I understand better now why some have to pass a particular screening first.

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Oh, for sure. There will be battles for resources that would probably dwindle exponentially. There will be loads of suffering throughout. I’ve worried so much for years and have made my own contributions to reduce my carbon footprint - recycled and reused as much as I can, not buying a car, among others - and it’s so exhausting to keep caring when the main perpetrators get to keep doing it abundantly relatively scot-free. At this point, it’s just easier for my own mental health to choose my battles and to choose which one to worry more and hopefully help in that aspect. This is one of the main reasons I’ve decided to become childfree; it’s just cruel to bring life to an uncertain world where the bad guys run rampant.

Is it bizarre it doesn’t bother me that much about what happens to humanity at this point? Scientists have seen this happening decades ago and have implored companies and governments to make changes, only to land in deaf ears… so in a way, we saw this coming and didn’t care. We kinda had it coming. What I really worry for are the innocent animals, fauna, and flora that will definitely be affected by this. It upsets me even just a change in temperature can mean life or death for some species. I just hope we can still slow this down enough for them to be able to adapt too 😥

Really hoping my country doesn’t follow suit to this. I can get a seat in a nice cinema with big seats that can become a bed with a push of the button for only 10 usd (which includes free popcorn!). Did you perhaps pay using a Credit Card? From my experience every time I buy stuff online like bus tickets which you usually buy at their booth, I have to pay extra for the “convenience”.

I’m feeling pretty sad that Twitter is getting worse and worse after every update. Smaller content creators, aside from their discord, would use Twitter primarily to reach out to their community or get discovered by others who haven’t seen them yet and you didn’t even need Twitter Blue to make that happen. I wonder how this limit is going to affect artists as well who hustle through that website. :<

Onto other news, I hope everyone has a happy rest of their weekend ♥

This little guy is so adorable!!! Whatever the name, I’m sure it’ll be awesome. Props to the artist :)

That just makes people want to use Twitter less, won’t it? Unless there’s some grand strategist-levels Masterplan behind this that I’m simply too stupid to fathom? I already use less of Twitter since he owned it, and I may even just cut it off now. It’s such a shame too because it’s one way for content creators to reach out to their community aside from Discord… I personally use Twitter a lot to notify people when I’m going live, etc. but with this change there might not even be a point anymore because I absolutely refuse to sign up for Twitter Blue.

Kinda pretty sad that Dark Souls 3 is still so expensive… ever since Elden Ring blew up, its price has also skyrocketed. It finally got a sale today, but I remember many years ago it had a discount that was much lower.

Nevertheless, I got Alien Isolation, Dark Souls 3, and I’m hoping I can finally get some DAVE THE DIVER, but money is tight at the moment. This Steam Sale arrived at a pretty bad time for me :(

Yeah, for sure.

Yes, I agree with it being more genuine. Everyone was trying to figure out what the Internet meant and what you could do. It really felt like trekking into the unknown! I loved stumbling upon random websites, the flash games, the websites here and there, the blogs, the niche forums… I feel like the rise of social media and companies and the fact that companies figured out the people themselves were the product ruined a part of it somehow. I wish you good luck in incorporating that sense of adventure to your kids - I know it’s not easy with all the dangers online and outside. But the fact you’re trying to do that despite all is already so awesome.

Oh, man. Old TV was great, too. Now it’s just a plethora of commercials and scripted shows. I already got rid of cable, and rely on an old laptop connected to my TV for shows on that are on Youtube or Netflix. I don’t want to sound like an old lady raising her cane ranting about the good old days, but seriously, we had it great back then. It sometimes feels like the Internet launched us into an unknown and I feel so grateful I got to see the early days of it where people were still trying to figure it out and unleash their creativity, before it became… well, this. Now it’s just a monopoly of concepts and services, and companies where they want to herd us all to one direction that would get them money. I’m thankful for the convenience it brings of course, and I admit there are some I willingly pay for, just wish it felt more free and less commercialized.

Definitely teachers. Having to teach and guide human beings who are impulsive and reckless by nature due to their still developing brain is not an easy feat. Endless patience and understanding is needed. Used to teach in a middle school and high school for three years before and my goodness, it was so difficult but also so fulfilling. It’s something I’d probably never do again.

It’s interesting, but not too long ago, I was musing with my friends how I missed the Old Internet (Internet of the late 1990s to late 2000s to be more specific). It was exciting and it felt like the digital word was your oyster - you could do anything and everything, and if you find a gold mine, you could meet interesting people who had a lot to share with common interests. Not much social media, not much algorithms that make your feed simply an echo chamber, and you really had to look sometimes what you were really looking for, and sometimes what you find might even surprise you.

Sigh, I feel awful that I took it for granted. I wish I had savored more of it. Nothing is going to be like that again.

I don’t feel bad that a considerable amount of them are indifferent to this plight. If they don’t care Reddit has been screwing over its users and has a very tone-deaf approach to this problem, they’re not the kind of people you want around anyway, and there’s nothing that will ever change their minds because they never had the empathy to understand the very root of this problem.

They can stay there. I’d rather be here without their gate-keeping, their negativity, their trolling, and their constant Reddit’s ass-kissing.

Awwww, this is so helpful, Kitsu! Thank you! Time to learn some new skills. That’s going to be my promise to myself this year.

Maybe somewhere a wee accessible to everyone lol