The stenographer for our local zoning & planning board still uses a XP netbook. Couldn’t believe my eyes when I first saw it

Honestly, a massive one for me is not letting myself get angry at a game I can’t hope to understand or master at a highly competitive level. I do a lot better at recognizing these days when I am intellectually or physically incapable of getting better quickly at a game - my mind shifts these activities outside of a competitive mindset and more to a leisure mindset.

When I’m not trying to actively compete against others to a point of pride, suddenly I’m a lot more receptive to incremental growth at my own pace

I’m fully aligned here. I’m at the point where I lurk every day, but I remain wishing the niche communities were around. Obviously, I should be contributing myself, but…

I lurk but Reddit is completely dead to me. I haven’t used it more than once or twice since the API change

Absolutely - our local smoke shop in my towns plaza.

Unironically yes

ShareX and it isn’t even close

Absolutely, by necessity. Can’t really take it for granted that being a lurker won’t overall impact the site. Unfortunately, my usual subs that I participate in haven’t yet made the leap of faith, so its hard to provide quality contribution until that improves

The site has felt way more usable in the last week, too. Haven’t had much time to contribute myself, but I was browsing Active last night and thought to myself “hey, this feels just like the Reddit I know and love”

Once the niche communities take the plunge, its endgame for Reddit

Currently full time lurking on Lemmy. I have only used Reddit when there is absolutely no analogue for my issue (in this case, used fightsticks for FGC titles)

Using the Memmy app on iOS

The community efforts in the discord are incredible - they’ve already got it largely working

Your diligence is appreciated!!

If Sync retools to Lemmy/kbin, they’ll have me for life

I’m not married to Lemmy just yet, but I really can’t see myself going back to Reddit. I think the only actual utility I get out of Reddit these days is keeping up on Gaming news - I used to get a ton of value out of a subreddit for my profession, but the head admin there seems to be a bit of a heel & most of the quality contributors already moved elsewhere before the blackout.

I think its been easy to ignore the fact that Reddit is just like every other silicon valley social media company. Enshittification was always on the roadmap - I just had hoped that Reddit would’ve been a bit more graceful about it. In retrospect, it’s terrifying that we have this much human knowledge & history tied to one platform.

Thanks for the share! Just submitted my own request :)

Amen. Half the battle is actually contributing/replying for engagement metrics, so here I am :)