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@east@kbin.social

Passionate about technology, playing music, and collecting vinyl.

Find me on Mastodon over at https://cupoftea.social/@east

So fathers day will be celebrated on Sunday, June 18th in US, UK, CA & more. Do you have anything planned?

I thought this would be a good reminder as well. While I am not a father myself, I spend time with mine usually, doing whatever he has planned for the day. We're not really much for exchanging cards and such. I think time spent together is an ample way to spend the day overall....

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Oh, that sounds nice, should be a good day then. I haven't stopped by an ice cream stand yet this year, should do that before the season is out for sure. Usually I go for moose tracks if they have it.

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That's so awesome, glad you're making progress!

Matrix chat for m/chat. For friendly casual discussion, feel free to join up! The link is in the sidebar, check this thread for details.

The topic of conversation is general, friendly civil discussion. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. If you're unfamiliar with Matrix- the process of joining is fairly simple. Follow the prompts on the invite link below and create an account/join....

Curious, if you were/are a Reddit user, will you be leaving the platform for good or have you already? CEO has called unpaid moderators' concerns "noise", that will be "passing soon."

There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would....

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That's a great idea actually. Nice approach on the matter and thanks for spreading the word. I may keep my account just to do the same on desktop. I really don't want anything reddit related on my phone anymore though. With them forcing the use of their own app and pretty much making their mobile site unusable I'd just have to stick to desktop with ublock origin.

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Now that I think of it, I haven't checked Reddit either since coming here. I really do think once people set foot here or on any instance for that matter there's a good chance they won't want to go back. I also feel like, there's really nothing stopping people from striking up new communities to represent ones they (and others) may have lost, which is great. Also I have a similar approach on the ads, I run ad-guard DNS on my phone and it works with most things, but what it doesn't work with doesn't get a place on my phone.

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Yeah, totally understandable. That's quite a run. As you've said even if they were to backpedal and reverse everything- which they won't there's definitely no guarantee it won't just happen again in the future. It seems like they're using a heavy hand this time, and now they're even threatening to oust mods for protesting.

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Besides there are probably better ways to use all the time I used to waste scrolling through my Reddit feed.

Honestly it's kind of nice having a full fledged app in my pocket to burn time with. Though I'm not opposed to one for kbin (or the existing one for lemmy), it's been pretty refreshing just having my access mostly be limited to desktop. I do find myself more centered on what's happening in front of me when I'm out and about.

There are a few niche hobby and interest communities I might check in on

I hope we see even more niche communities see growth on different instances. I've noticed quite a few are popping up with subscribers, they just need participation from the community more than anything. I think they will get that as more people adopt the platform.

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Well put, regarding the capture by corporate interests and the return. I couldn't really put my finger on why I had been feeling like the fediverse is as exciting and interesting as the early internet I experienced growing up, but I think that is at least a large part of why that is.

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Welcome! That's cool, hope you find some communities here that you find engaging. As for deleting my account and all the rest, I'll probably do the same very soon.

Super excited about our community (m/chat) reaching 500 subs/700 comments in just over 3 days.

Hey all, we just ticked over the 500 sub mark. It's been very encouraging reading your stories of how you've found this community, the wider fediverse and reading what you have to say! I am confident we can continue to grow and keep the same friendly vibe going forward....

Has anyone else been losing track of time in the Fediverse?

I've heard other people talk about falling down Reddit holes over the years, but I was never this engaged on Reddit. I posted maybe a handful of times. I'd usually browse r/popular/top set to desktop version in Firefox on mobile without logging in. Here, though, I'm literally losing sleep and hours pass because the energy, the...

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Hours are definitely passing quickly for me while browsing kbin, mastodon, and participating in related chats and such. It's definitely one of the first things I think about when I wake up, which is a testament to how intoxicating it is. That said, I don't let anything get in the way of my sleep these days. Overall, I'm glad to have discovered the fediverse. It feels engaging in a way that the early web did for me as I was growing up.

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y’all, today has been a day. between stress at work and moving to a new apartment in something like 9 days, i am finding it difficult to motivate myself to move a muscle, let alone do anything productive.

how are y’all? is everyone else holding up okay in the face of all this social media shakeup, and anything else you might have going on?

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@mishamouse Good luck with the move! I've been struggling to get motivated as well as I just dropped coffee in favor of tea and the reduction in caffeine has left me with bouts of tiredness over the last two days. Overall still doing good though, can't complain too much. This community received a lot of activity on day 1 of Reddit going dark so that was cool to see.

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I'm mostly starting from scratch on Mastodon. I had an account on mastodon.social that had many followers/people that I followed years ago, but closed it to take a hiatus from social media for awhile, personal reasons. Recently I discovered a good instance and signed up again, but I only follow like 20 people. Would be nice to network with more people as well.

Interests: Vinyl, electric guitar, music discovery, tech and general chit-chat.
What you post: Mainly vinyl and general chit-chat. Sometimes I share music I find if it really hits me right. Sometimes I boost photography.
username: @east

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Thanks for the add, look forward to checking out your updates for sure! Sorry to hear that they social graph was gone, it seems like it's a good thing they were able to recover anything for you though. Sounds like a good administrator for sure.

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Hey all! Testing functionality and connectivity between Mastodon and kbin.social. This should show up in the microblog of m/chat?

@chat

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@east Responding to myself. Nice, looks like federation is working well.

Do you have any planned vacations? Where to? Do you have a favorite destination?

I currently don't have any planned that I'm looking forward to, but someone I know is currently in Costa Rica for a trip and is having a blast from what I hear. I'm thinking of planning something! I do have availability to do one soon, just not sure where I'd go yet.

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The area around Frisco/Breckenridge/Vail/Copper Mountain (the front range) is very beautiful. I've only been there during the winter and fall for skiing and snowboarding, but I know during the summer they do a lot of bike rentals out of the same shops. Hiking and camping seems plentiful in the summer months. That's pretty much the only area of Colorado I've been to though. I hope you can find a good vacation spot for the family, good luck!

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That's so cool, good to hear you had a great experience. A year is definitely a good amount of time to really take in a place, nice.

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Totally understandable, I feel like there's so much more out there to see it's overwhelming thinking about, but in a good way.

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That's amazing. Never been to Alaska but it looks quite scenic, this would definitely be the time of year I'd want to go. Iceland has always been a place I wanted to visit at some point, hoping to get around to it, it's on my list for potential trips. As for vandwelling I've definitely been one to check r/vandwellers when I was still on Reddit, interesting lifestyle choice, seems very freeing.

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Thanks for the input everyone. For now I've started a Matrix chat and put it in the sidebar for anyone interested. In the future I may consider also adding a Discord.

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