Dear Faye

I personally wish there were more communities - it’s kind of difficult for me to navigate at times when looking for communities especially if they exist in another instance, but otherwise, I have definitely replaced Reddit with this site. I just lurk on Reddit now, don’t upvote or downvote, and just read some stuff that I can’t find over here on my desktop, but here - I am actively engaging. It does feel more chill, and kind of reminds me of Old Internet somehow and I really like how so many people are coming together too to fix bugs and improve the QOL.

Smaller communities, more intimate experiences, and overall, the people you’d see here are most likely who won’t accept or allow what Reddit now stands for.

I definitely agree with this, but damn, the upkeep for having an instance of your own can be a strain on your server, though. We have a small instance of ours in order to subscribe to other instances (not just lemmy.world) and in a span of 4 weeks, the database got up to 6 gigs already… can’t imagine how much it would cost to have more than 15 users. Donations would have to be a default setup if people want a particular instance to keep running and not have it become like Reddit, and I understand better now why some have to pass a particular screening first.

I definitely agree with this, but damn, the upkeep for having an instance of your own can be a strain on your server, though. We have a small instance of ours in order to subscribe to other instances (not just lemmy.world) and in a span of 4 weeks, the database got up to 6 gigs already… can’t imagine how much it would cost to have more than 15 users. Donations would have to be a default setup if people want a particular instance to keep running and not have it become like Reddit, and I understand better now why some have to pass a particular screening first.

Oh, for sure. There will be battles for resources that would probably dwindle exponentially. There will be loads of suffering throughout. I’ve worried so much for years and have made my own contributions to reduce my carbon footprint - recycled and reused as much as I can, not buying a car, among others - and it’s so exhausting to keep caring when the main perpetrators get to keep doing it abundantly relatively scot-free. At this point, it’s just easier for my own mental health to choose my battles and to choose which one to worry more and hopefully help in that aspect. This is one of the main reasons I’ve decided to become childfree; it’s just cruel to bring life to an uncertain world where the bad guys run rampant.

Is it bizarre it doesn’t bother me that much about what happens to humanity at this point? Scientists have seen this happening decades ago and have implored companies and governments to make changes, only to land in deaf ears… so in a way, we saw this coming and didn’t care. We kinda had it coming. What I really worry for are the innocent animals, fauna, and flora that will definitely be affected by this. It upsets me even just a change in temperature can mean life or death for some species. I just hope we can still slow this down enough for them to be able to adapt too 😥

Really hoping my country doesn’t follow suit to this. I can get a seat in a nice cinema with big seats that can become a bed with a push of the button for only 10 usd (which includes free popcorn!). Did you perhaps pay using a Credit Card? From my experience every time I buy stuff online like bus tickets which you usually buy at their booth, I have to pay extra for the “convenience”.

I’m feeling pretty sad that Twitter is getting worse and worse after every update. Smaller content creators, aside from their discord, would use Twitter primarily to reach out to their community or get discovered by others who haven’t seen them yet and you didn’t even need Twitter Blue to make that happen. I wonder how this limit is going to affect artists as well who hustle through that website. :<

Onto other news, I hope everyone has a happy rest of their weekend ♥

This little guy is so adorable!!! Whatever the name, I’m sure it’ll be awesome. Props to the artist :)

That just makes people want to use Twitter less, won’t it? Unless there’s some grand strategist-levels Masterplan behind this that I’m simply too stupid to fathom? I already use less of Twitter since he owned it, and I may even just cut it off now. It’s such a shame too because it’s one way for content creators to reach out to their community aside from Discord… I personally use Twitter a lot to notify people when I’m going live, etc. but with this change there might not even be a point anymore because I absolutely refuse to sign up for Twitter Blue.

Kinda pretty sad that Dark Souls 3 is still so expensive… ever since Elden Ring blew up, its price has also skyrocketed. It finally got a sale today, but I remember many years ago it had a discount that was much lower.

Nevertheless, I got Alien Isolation, Dark Souls 3, and I’m hoping I can finally get some DAVE THE DIVER, but money is tight at the moment. This Steam Sale arrived at a pretty bad time for me :(

Welcome, everybody! No doubt this part of the fediverse will see gradual growth, but just the same I’m pleased to see old and new names here. I can’t wait to be more active in interacting with you all =)

TFW you’re broke and $70 is the norm for AAA games now. As much as I want to get this on Steam so I can have all the games in one account, it’s looking like I have no choice but just play it on the XBOX game pass when it comes out. Living the PH, it’s 3 USD a month here.

I’ll be using both - Reddit because of habit, and mostly to just lurk. I won’t upvote/downvote or contribute anything - it can’t be debated that it’s still a treasure trove of knowledge. But I’ll be actively contributing here on Lemmy for sure because I want this to be the next home :)

And I thought they wouldn’t go any lower. It’s disgusting how far they’re willing to go - it’s like they’re so eager to prove us right.