Anything they force upon you in new Reddit. Compare old to new, and you see that the same amount of page nets you a third of the content. So much bloat. Profile pictures are nice, tags and flairs are nice, but any of the crap they introduced to make things more like Facebook and Twitter can go right in the bin.
Ah, seems I misclicked. This was in response to @kadu because I personally prefer kbin over Lemmy for a variety of reasons. I do agree we should grow both rather than devolve into tribalism.
If there is no kbin or lemmy community available yet, there is always the option to start it. Might be a nice opportunity to get such a place off the ground.
It is what it is, and it was expected. Curious to see what happens around the 30th, all we can do right now is throw it a downvote. I'm finally finding my footing around kbin so there's the silver lining.
The obvious answer for me is performance: hopping from Zelda TotK into Violet is a shocking experience.
Besides that, I loved legends Arceus because it felt like they tried something new. An increase in difficulty is also warranted, but hey it’s still pokémon.
It will take some time before I stop trying to refresh the front page habitually, but I like the variety of posts I've seen fly by on KBIN the past days. Had to filter out some german pages though.
For blender it's the tradition (and expectation) of using youtube tutorials. There are also quite a few courses available for cheap on Udemy and the like, which means they might also be available on less legitimate places . These courses will teach more theory rather than having you copy steps.
The best advice I can give is to keep trucking, and make things you are interested in, and which look interesting - but keep it within your scope of skill. Find artists you enjoy on Artstation/Youtube/Sketchfab, and try and replicate what they do. Knowing why/how things work is better than learning how to do the same trick everyone is doing.
Blender is great to learn box modeling in, so perhaps start with that and learn by doing a bit every day. I myself taught myself Blender by creating low-poly versions of my DnD characters, inspired by the-regressor on tumblr/sketchfab.
Skills are transferable, so once you've got the hang of that, step it up and go for more complicated subjects.
I just posted a thread describing similar concerns. I only went for niche places such as 3d sculpting and emulation devices, but still it was nice to once in a while come across things outside of my bubble of interests.
What I mostly worry about is the bar of entry for the fediverse being too high for the casual user, the majority of which would fill such less niche boards with interesting and regular content. We live in a 'push button, get dopamine' era of content, and the fediverse seems more complicated than that.