Just felt like showing some appreciation. Thank’s y’all

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    5·
    2 months ago

    Thank you as well MrShankles! I left reddit for lemmy. I think my next move will be a daily walk to the coffee shop and see if I can meet some like-minded folks in real-time. It’s been too long and the human touch is sometimes needed to re-center yourself. My fear is that everyone out there are assholes or, worse yet, I’m the asshole.

    • MrShankles@reddthat.comOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      I know you are, but what am I?

      “I’m rubber, and you’re glue. Whatever you say to me, bounces off and sticks to you!”

      I never understood that retort as a kid, cause I was a little too literal lol. But I always loved the spirit of it

  • lumpyluggage@lemmy.world
    62·
    2 months ago

    I wish people would be at least a little more normal. It’s a bit weird when you join Lemmy and the front page is full of furries, femcels and other niches you never heard of.

    But I get it. There aren’t many other places left for unusual people. So I guess you better get used to it.

    • Zombie@feddit.uk
      10·
      2 months ago

      Unlike Reddit, Lemmy makes no attempt to spoon feed and algorithmically tailor to what it believes will garner the largest audience.

      You have to do a little curating here. Block users, communities, and even whole servers that you’re not interested in and suddenly the whole experience changes.

      I very very rarely block users or servers because I don’t want to put myself into an echo chamber, but I have a long list of communities blocked because I have no interest in them whatsoever. There could be anime girls posted every 10 seconds with thousands of upvotes for all I know, but I’ve blocked them because I don’t care. They can continue having fun in their community, I can be blissfully unaware of it. Win win.

      Make the threadiverse your own and it’s far more enjoyable than everything all at once.

    • MrShankles@reddthat.comOP
      7·
      2 months ago

      I feel there’s more unusual people than nahh, but nobody talks about (due to risk of presenting as abnormal). But if you can set aside the fear of being ostracized… everyone is pretty strange in their own ways. Show me a “normal” person, and I’ll show you someone who’s still learning. Appreciate you as you are though, we’re all out here learning <3

    • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 months ago

      Not sure why you have that much of it. My frontpage (not subscriptions) is mostly meme, open source news, and political stuff. I don’t see furries often.

    • Aniki@feddit.org
      2·
      2 months ago

      what else would you prefer in your feed?

      all interesting content is, by definition, weird

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      1·
      2 months ago

      I don’t see much of either in my feed, though I already heard about them. Curious now, which other niche stuff you see lots around here?