Looking for an alternative to reddit
It’s just really boring I guess. As a kid I didn’t realize how pointless it all is. Go to work, make money to pay bills, be tired after work and watch TV…
Thank god for working from home, it gives some relief from the process.
But yeah, it’s the same in communist countries I guess… Just without all the stuff we can buy.
If it doesn’t work out, it’s fine. Soooo many first dates don’t work out. It’s painful to date and it’s normal.
I would have the attitude that you are just going to meet this person and it’s not a huge deal if it doesn’t work out. Don’t put pressure on yourself that this is going to be some magical moment. It’s just a person on the other side, with lots of flaws and insecurities and may even not be a nice person.
Try to chill and see if you are a good fit together. If not, it’s fine.
It’s all about if you are a good fit together. Maybe you go there and she is annoying and awful. It’s possible. So just relax.
It’s all about distraction. All of us seek entertainment because our lives are usually quite dull. So the media feeds us things to have opinions about. Politicians, big tech psychos, gender issues…
It’s all pointless and keeps us from actually making any real difference. People here on Lemmy fight over which words to use, gender issues, or god forbid, someone admits they are not vaccinated…! Wow. Nuclear bomb right away.
None of this matters at all, it’s just entertainment… Nobody changes their minds from getting downvoted either. Sometimes it feels like keyboard warriors here think they are fighting some kind of fight. But nobody changes their mind guys, even if you downvote them.
So it’s actually pure entertainment and distraction from what matters… :) We don’t have to be so serious.
Maybe because they have no desire to let you teach them things they have no interest in?
It sounds like you expect them to hang around and watch you do things you like… Of course they walk away if it’s not interesting to them.
So yeah, you need to find other friends somewhere, just like you say. It’s difficult.
Fishing fits that game… I always had the feeling that there was no point to doing anything in the game. I guess I like some kind of progress feeling.
I think I blocked some porn instance but otherwise nothing.
I’m not the kind of guy who must block something I don’t agree with.
As long as their goals suite the company, sure. The endgame of Google is very clear and it doesn’t include a free and open web.
How about a masters in propaganda on social media?
But what you are doing is also speculation. You have a firm belief that aliens don’t visit because it’s too far to travel. Because you speculate that they would use combustion engines and run out of gas, or it would take too long because they have to travel in a line (not using wormholes and whatnot).
I think some people are just more open to looking past those limitations that we have. Just because humans have those limitations does not mean others do.
Our civilization don’t have space exploration as a profession. You and I can’t even leave the planet. We have astronomers looking at things and we have space agencies that tell us what they see. And that’s it.
Us speaking about what other species can do is a bit silly. We really have no idea.
It’s super likely that others have found a way to extract energy from space itself. Humans are still focused on fighting eachother. It’s primitive here.
I think it’s the other way around - people who claim it’s impossible because of “long distances” have problems imagining someone traveling using wormholes or other technologies humans have no clue about.
Usually the response to this is “yeah but why would they visit us, we don’t matter”.
Ever looked at an animal because it’s beautiful or fascinating? Why do you go to the zoo or the park? Why do anything except stay at home since you know what it’s like already?
Humans would absolutely travel to other star systems if we had the technology. Why wouldn’t they?
First thing in their privacy statement:
You can claim that they are lying but I personally do not think they do.
Google is not private and they track you on every web page, building up a profile of your searches, weather you are logged in or not.
I think its been interesting to watch. What has happened is that there is now a super large instance in Lemmy.world, and a handful of smaller ones with above a thousand users.
The promise of proper decentralization didn’t really happen. There are hundreds of small instances but they are not self contained and completely depend on the larger ones to get content.
Defederation seems to be common since admins don’t want to deal with moderating hostile conversations, which makes a lot of sense. But it also makes it a echo chamber to some degree. We see mostly memes and jokes instead of meaningful discussions. So it’s great for a fun time but not so much more than that.
Still, I’m happy it’s an alternative to reddit and those shitty services. I love that it’s run by ordinary people and not tech companies. And no ads or tracking. All good stuff.
It’s a start but the flat style doesn’t look very good. This is a limitation of cosmic I guess since all themes are just flat without borders.
Well at least get a break while coming back and growing up and being a teenager again…
I think if you run Linux, you don’t notice it so much. Don’t need office suite or Adobe suitsäe or mediation apps or whatever… There are many decent free ones.
I don’t pay for any software at all actually, and my job pays for chat gpt…
Friends don’t let friends use windows man. :p
He was 22 years old. Pretty incredible.
I’m weird because I’m very interested in what comes after death. Always been interested in reincarnation and those things.
When the day comes, it will be either nothing or something. Either way it’s the end of working to live, so that’s nice.
“Celebrate the art of makeup.” … :)
Yeah I know, I’m not American myself. It’s absolutely possible to have a balance, but it requires companies to not be so rich and above the law that they can control the laws.