That’s roughly the speed at which these sorts of things would get identified on That Other Site™️, so that’s a good sign!
This is great advice, coming from someone who pondered using the “Mother was really sick and had to manage her illness and passing” excuse if I ever went back, as it was true for me too. (I’m sorry for your loss, it’s a really painful life transition, I know.)
I ended up taking a slightly different approach. I worked in IT project management before I retired early. My LinkedIn resume shows me currently employed as an “IT consultant” and will until I decide I need another job or I kick it.
OP, this person knows what they’re talking about. One of the screening questions when I was diagnosed with ADHD had to do with clumsiness. My own parents used to call me, “An accident waiting for a place to happen.”
I have slowly been able to improve my clumsiness a little bit, by exercising regularly with a trainer 5 days a week. One of those days is a balance-focused day and after 2.5 years I’m actually able to hold poses and (mostly) stay upright and steady. But it was SLOW going.
The night before my 50th birthday, after I had been taking this class for 7 months, my husband and I were on a sunset cruise and his phone fell out of his pocket and over the side of the ship. I reached out with one hand and successfully caught it. THAT KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENS TO ME!
I celebrate that day every year as much as my birthday now. I managed to show off hand eye coordination before I was 50!
Get screened… :)
I don’t mind if you take Earl Gray for your tea, or simply earl gray. It’s things like neglecting to put in paragraph breaks and a complete lack of punctuation that really bother me.
I also have a bias against u/ur etc. but I’m annoyingly pedantic about things like that. If Weird Al mocked it in “Word Crimes”, it’s likely on my list of peeves.
I believe Reddit is to blame… because everything bad comes from them right?
And I fully support your hypothesis here!
Regardless of how you choose to write things out, it’s always good to see another feline based username in these parts.
Yes, servers can disable downvotes. Beehaw does that, for instance. I’m on lemmy.world which allows both. I prefer both because I think it helps silence bad faith participation with less active moderation, but I respect that some places don’t want it.
This is great but I’ve turned it off because sometimes I want to go back to a post I’ve recently read to see new comments.
I really wish there was an option to hide posts I’ve downvoted. It’s still early days so I imagine that will come later.
Thanks for the PSA!
His persecution fetish is showing
… Unidan? Is that you?
- Distraction
- Discussion
Nailed it!
I haven’t been active in the IT world on years, but as a veteran of Usenet from back in the 90’s, I’ve been enjoying how much this distributed setup feels like that; And in no small part because it’s not as easily accessible to the non-techies.
I also feel like the comparison to a “sugar rush” is a good one. Reddit was becoming too much, it was so overrun with bots and trolls. This place feels more sane and less run down.
Plot twist: All of this is made up.
I’m guessing that they will replace all of the mod teams and forcibly re-open the subreddits.
Doubt that will go as well as they’re expecting it to.
Like the world’s largest kidney stone, hopefully.
Change is uncomfortable. There’s just no way around it. And there’s nothing wrong with you feeling that it’s kind of empty here and not what you’re used to.
For me, it will be uncomfortable regardless. My preferred interface (RIF) is gone in 2 weeks so nothing at Reddit will feel comfortable either.
So I’ve chosen to embrace the discomfort of Lemmy’s newness and comparative “emptiness” over the discomfort of using Reddit’s inferior app, for a couple of reasons: First, Reddit turned on us, not the other way around, and second, because this place is relatively new it’s not littered with bots and spammers and trolls. The energy here is just better for me.
Even if all my favorite places and posters aren’t here yet, I’ll be here waiting for them when they arrive, and I’m the meantime, I’ll be doing my part to recreate what I used to love there, here.
I’ve just gotta know was that local dial up in DC Digex?
I worked with Tale@UUNET during the Eternal September, providing NNTP support to our customers. God that was hell.
Half the battle was finding something to put in the tray besides Reddit. Jerboa it is!
Reddit ran me off with a permaban 2 months ago because I wrote about the 3 boxes of liberty metaphor in a comment. 2 million+ imaginary Internet points down the drain. Glad to see the site shoot itself in the foot and looking forward to finding an alternative.
And the obligatory: fuck Spez.
Zuck claims it’s up to 30 million now