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I think all we can really do is set an example ourselves and to allow mods to do their jobs. We can only really control our own behavior, especially a place like Lemmy where it’s basically impossible to ban someone.
I try to keep my posts PG, try to understand others, ignore people I can’t find common ground with, and just try to be the type of poster/commenter I’d like to interact with.
I’ve eaten stuff from there once or twice. We had a rather mixed crowd of people and it made it very convenient to get something for adults of various cultures and their kids to all get some from one stop.
When my friend introduced me to it, I said, oh, so it’s like if Sysco cut out the middle man and just heated up the food for you themselves, right? That’s pretty much what it is. So I’d treat it like the mall food court. Food is just fine, like you’d get from a fast casual chain, and you can please near any variety of appetites in one store pickup.
I’d label it ethically neutral. You’re not supporting a real local business, but they do employee locals, assumingly pay local taxes, and if you’re feeding someone who may be shy to speak up if everyone else wants to eat one type of food and they don’t, they’re not put on the spot.
I don’t think I’ve missed a day for at least 2.5 years.
I think it’s hard seeing the actions and misdeeds of our leaders becoming more transparent. Like you said, I don’t think the world is worse, but it feels more in our face. Before we had real time communication across the world, we’d never know a thing about all these things all over. I don’t think I can devote that much time to stuff on that scale. It feels good focusing on the microcosm around me.
I want to continue to look for things close to me I can work with. Someone’s got to worry about things in a national or global scale, but it doesn’t need to be me, and I’m ok with that.
I just try to stay informed of what’s going on, but I don’t sweat the global or national news anymore. I try to see how I can help my friends and coworkers and my neighborhood more instead. Those are issues I can chip away at and see progress with.
I feel the ones being the loudest in these communities aren’t actually doing much in real life or they’d be a little more constructive in what they say here. People interested in making society better, I’d think, would have to take a bit more of an open arms approach when dealing with people they don’t really know or you’re hurting your movement more than helping it. With the world getting worse rather quickly, I don’t have time for talkers like that.
I agree with you, but I’ve only really seen the worse attitudes in the big news and politics communities.
I think it’s a few outspoken users that are just standing out more, but I don’t really read those posts or interact with them anymore.
The regular hobby and interest communities all feel friendly and active still, at least what income across.
This is the biggest change from my perspective as well. 3 years ago, I could participate in the news and politics posts, but I feel very discouraged since the patience and nuance feels gone.
How much of it is individuals vs how much is the US pissing people off, I couldn’t say, but the amount of people looking to push personal agendas has taken over the main communities and I won’t comment there anymore for the most part.
I scroll them for headlines and read the article if it’s from a good source and mostly skip the comments.
Every other community has largely improved though. There is a bit more attitude I think, but everything is much better here than at reddit. I just got diagnosed with sleep apnea and now that I’ve been feeling better I’m catching up on manga, so I’ve been scrolling reddit some for those topics, and whenever I check out other random topics while I’m there, it is way trashier than I remember.
I’m still getting new followers and commenters in my posts, so the userbase still seems to be growing here.
You can also not rake or otherwise dispose of leaves and other forms of yard waste. A lot of invertebrates depend on fallen leaves to lay their eggs or need them for insulation over the winter. Other animals also use leaves for things too.
Lol I never got much anime culture. My friend that let me borrow that stuff I haven’t seen in forever, and no one else due the most part has ever been interested in watching anything with me.
The posters seem cool. The magnet mounting is pretty exciting so you can swap stuff out nicely. I’ll have to give them a deeper look.
The first things I remember watching were Lensman, Akira, Iria:Zeiram, and Armitage that I borrowed from a friend after asking what this anime stuff was all about.
I was always a huge animation fan, and as a 20 year old, stuff like Batman the Animated Series was still great, but this anime stuff was definitely offering things geared with an older age bracket in mind. They were as diverse in content as a movie, just animated.
What I have always loved about animation is there are no limits to what can be done, because things like physics or actor safety aren’t concerns, and having outrageous shapes, colors, giant robots, aliens, transforming objects, etc can all fit in perfectly with the overall aesthetic of the animated world, so the most outlandish or impossible things don’t feel out of place.
All this, along with subject matter as childish or mature as I desired was perfect for me.
I’ve seen tons of anime at this point, and there are so many great titles it’s hard to name just a few good ones. Overall, One Piece is amazing, such rich and diverse characters and islands, and it seems the creator has always had a strong vision of the story he wanted to tell, as stuff from 20 years ago still fits perfectly with new lore being revealed today in a way that feels intentional, not just how do we keep new stuff canon with the old stuff. Gintama is equally amazing. It starts very bland and boring, but holy heck, does the story go places by the end! Like One Piece, there is so much content and the world and characters are explorer so thoroughly that they feel like real people and lived in places, not just set pieces. Gintama also has a ton of parady of other anime, so if you’ve been a long time fan, there’s so many jokes and bits and spoofs, that there’s just jokes on jokes for whole episodes. Both these series can make you laugh until you cry while also having some of the deepest emotional moments because I know more about these characters “lives” than I do about a lot of real people. You get invested in characters after a few hundred episodes! 😆
There have been plenty of anime that just weren’t for me. With specific exceptions, I’m not big on the isekai stuff (someone in the modern era is transported as-is or is reincarnated in another world) because so many feel like rip offs or cheap fan service.
I wouldn’t call it a bad experience, but Farming Life in Another World was my big disappointment. I liked the premise. Was curious to learn about the farming. The animation style looked great. The character designs were beautiful. It even had an adorable giant spider family, but instead of being scary, they ate potatoes. But there was no real farming or world building. The show was basically beautiful women (and women is sometimes stretching the age) one after the other moving to the village to help on the farm and sleep with the main character. 😒
I asked manga readers if it got better and was told if I didn’t like it by the point I was at, it wasn’t going to get better. Reincarnated as a Slime is similar, though has some things done not as ideally visually for me, it’s got a million times more plot and while it has fan service and some questionably agreed characters, nobody is actually doing anything with anyone else so whatever.
I’m on a Nebula guest pass this week someone generously gave me when I talked about having a hard time finding AI things.
It’s a very stark contrast scrolling through the 2 feeds next to each other!
Nebula has a more Fediverse feel. I don’t believe it has any kind of real recommendation algorithm, it just has a few suggested categories, like this is Women’s Month, so they highlight female creators. Less people contributing, but every video looks watchable even if it’s not something I have interest in. The main issue I’ve had is getting used to a more Netflix looking system to find videos, and just the fact since everything looks interesting, I haven’t actually watched much since it’s stuff I want to watch when I can actually pay attention instead of it just being moreso background noise. For the $60 a year or whatever it is, it is looking quite tempting.
Scrolling YouTube next to it feels much more like looking at Facebook. Clear algorithm based feed. Lots of mental junk food type recommendations. Real content looks the same as AI. I’m on premium and still have to hear the in-video ad reads. Much more variety (almost no electronic music production or synth type stuff I could find on Nebula, not much on animation, for example) but you have to wade through a lot of crud to find the good stuff.
Food Not Bombs is what I had been looking at, but the local-ish group seemed inactive. I just looked it up again though and they posted some updates about how they’ve been reorganizing. I feel feeding people is something positive, pretty much regardless of actual need. Everyone needs to eat. I think it’s the Sikhs that do a community kitchen, and I always thought that was very inspiring. They operate in a place with a high immigrant population and I saw in their updates a lot about supporting the unrecognized indigenous people of the area too, which seemed very cool.
I’m much the same. I volunteer at the wildlife rescue here, so I see the work being done and know the money is going to a good place. If they need something for us to get things done, I chip in. It’s also very rewarding, a lot of fun, and I get to meet great people and learn cool things.
I’d like to do something for the poor or homeless too, but I haven’t found the right opportunity yet, plus I need to address some personal health stuff before taking on more responsibility.
Sorry. Addendum: I see no issue with cross posting without asking. We post to get our message out there and cross posting aids in that process. I like that seeing our posts have been cross posted is easier to see these days on web Lemmy and many apps, as if my stuff is cross posted, I just like to know about it so I can answer any questions, since I focus on more educational subjects.
If anything, I’d prefer to see people cross post from small communities to bigger ones, since they will give exposure to the smaller communities. But the meme and news comms are already pretty big, so cross posting from one big group to another just feels like cluttering up people’s feeds with duplicates.
I found my Brother HL out on the curb on a lightly rainy day. I had passed by it on my walk thinking it was an Epson inkjet, but on my way back I saw it was one of those Brother BW lasers the Internet nerds always go on about so I brought it inside and dried it off.
Fired right up and has been handling my once a month or so printing duties ever since, still on the same toner that I found it with. Best non-commercial printer I’ve ever used.
Thank you for the input!
It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to do since the 2 services were bundled, but whenever I got bored with YouTube or whatever other streaming things I was using, I’d take a break and read a book from my backlog or play a video game and then forget to try them.
I just want longer content to put on in the background or while I do chores, I just don’t want it to be AI slop.
I really need to give this and/or Curiosity Steam a try. I still get a lot of use out of YouTube Premium (oh, boo yourself 😄) but for documentary type things, it’s so hard to sure through the AI generated stuff anymore.
If this was someplace more commercial like reddit, I’d probably feel ok with occasionally spamming the charity I volunteer at, as it ties in with the content I share, and of course we would enjoy donations. There’s 2 reasons I don’t do it here.
This space I feel is meant to be for users, by users. I don’t want anyone to feel they owe me something for posting, sharing, or interacting with them. I’m here because I like most of you all. I think it’s great we still have an online space like this.
I also think while we need assistance, we are from all over the world, and I think people here should support their local direct action groups before they toss anything my way. Your local groups need you more than you need me. I tell everyone to kick in to them before even thinking of me. The sole exception was the LemmySilver contest, but that was by the World admin team, so that was an organization offering specifically charity money. Even then, I’m pretty sure I asked the community if they were cool with it going to my group.
I just like that money really doesn’t come into play in Lemmy. Shit is expensive these days and it feels like everyone is looking to get a slice from everyone else. Keeping this place non-commercial and with nobody looking for a transactional relationship seems like a huge plus.
Same here. Wifey got me a Trade subscription maybe 3 years ago for Xmas and every 3 weeks or so I try a brand new single origin coffee I’ve never had before. (Except the one from India that tasted like pineapple! That one I ordered twice before it was gone.) It is $20 every 3 weeks since I drink one a day, but this week I switch up to the big bag so we could both enjoy it. That took it up to $50, but now it’s a full 2 pounds instead of 10 oz. (That’s 280g to 900g.)