christian

christian, 11 months ago

It's upsetting to see the shit-talking because I imagine reading that nonsense is emotionally draining, especially when you're already stressed out with a billion things to do. I've seen you guys active in the lemmy community for years and you've always been wonderful. I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciates the work you two have put in and are currently putting in. I'm really happy that your project is starting to catch on.

christian, 11 months ago

Never been an /r/piracy user, but this is so obviously the correct response that I feel embarrassed I didn't think of it as soon as I saw this drama being posted here.

christian, 11 months ago

It was a small friendly community where we could shoot the shit. I'm generally lurking much much more than posting on all the platforms I've used, but on lemmy sometimes if I had a silly thought I would just find some community adjacent to my silly thought and throw it out to the world, without feeling like I might be judged for a bad post or wrong place to share.

Absolutely everyone knows it's dumb to get invested in upvotes or downvotes, but I'm an irrational person and sometimes I like to see that someone appreciated my contribution to discussion. When you're in a smaller community, those somehow feel more personal, you feel like someone actually read what you wrote. The flip side to that mentality would be feeling insecure about downvotes, but I think I only ever got one downvote before the migration a couple weeks ago. The community felt welcoming to me.

I will admit, there is a tiny part of me that feels like my special place is turning into another reddit, which I'll have to get used to. I feel like I'm not supposed to say that out loud, but it is there. The big concern I have is getting big enough to have product placement and PR stuff. Reddit was popular enough to get astroturfed to hell, and as a dumb person sometimes I can't distinguish which opinions are genuine. That makes me feel more detached from discussion.

Overall though, I'm really happy to see this place succeed, it's come so far since I joined a few years ago. I've commented a bunch in the past few days, I do really like having more people to chat with. My experiences with the devs have been great over the years and I'm happy for them to have their project gain steam, they really deserve it.

christian, 11 months ago

I'm going to stop using reddit on mobile altogether when redreader goes.

christian, 11 months ago

Spiritchaser is amazing. Dead Can Dance in general is really good music.

christian, 11 months ago

"Warrior" by Anilah is one of my favorites, not sure if it's technically an album or an EP. I don't even know what genre to call it. The closest things I know are neoclassical groups like Dargaard, but I don't think it fits under that label. It's definitely not metal either, maybe folk music or electronic?

christian, 11 months ago

I'd go with "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun". Track 7 ("Summoning of the Muse") is my favorite song by any artist.

christian, 11 months ago

I hate wandering onto the bigger subreddits because it's often impossible to distinguish what's genuine and what's not and my default is to just take everything at face value.

christian, 11 months ago

I used diaspora for years and years but at some point I gave up on it, maybe I should give it a go again. Anyway, I found that following interesting accounts was a lot more effective than following tags. Check out the public feed every so often, anyone who posts something fun or interesting, follow.

christian, 11 months ago

Yeah, one of the few things I still use reddit for regularly is NHL discussion. (Go Capitals!) I wish we had communities for that here.

The other subreddits I still use regularly are for specific video games. Some of them really have no hope of making it to lemmy, but I think we could probably fit pokemon discussion and trading stuff here.

christian, 11 months ago

I figured it had to be coming, but I haven't heard yet about old.reddit being killed. Is that going to happen at the same time as the third-party apps?

christian, 11 months ago

I use redreader too, I was happy to see the developer post that they were considering reworking it for Lemmy. Hopefully they decide it's worth their effort.

christian, 1 year ago

Lemmygrad was a communist instance with a nice community before genzedong left reddit. I would look at the new posts every day and the community was friendly. Lately I view Lemmy much less than I had been back then. I definitely feel like lemmygrad has become hostile.

I've very recently started using the user blocklist in the lemmy settings to remove a couple users from my feed who I feel are obnoxious/overly confrontational. I feel like this has actually been a lot more helpful than I was expecting, but it's only been a few days.