I was indeed a bit playful, my friend. Possibly even sarcastic.
I’m not sure, really; because sometimes the meaning bursts out, looking to reconcile its own meaning.
If it helps, I’m normally pretty chill about stuff, but what just happened in LaLaLand is akin to jumping right in to a volcano, i.e. kerplonk and sizzle.
I mean… I hope we can all understand the sheer frustration upon the insane US election result, right? But… are you thinking that it’s specifically worse than that…? I mean, floof man, let’s just get back to owls, if so…?
There’s the election, which has people rightfully mad, but I feel 99% of us are on the same side of that, but everyone seems angsty with each other, people mad at the .World staff over bans, and now drama over the 196 people and blahaj. Just too much fighting and not enough community. I try to be here as a relief to you all from it, but sometimes that’s makes it hard for me, not feeling I have a place to go.
Myself, I was joyful to discover the Fediverse at one point, being utterly disgusted with Reddit’s management (ala the summer of 2023 crackdowns), and thinking that most people here would automagically share a sort of ‘uplifting, positive mindset.’ Sadly, the same old behavior that I’ve seen online since the late 80’s (yes, I’m old) was still in full effect, so unfortunately (IMO) there’ll always be abusers, exploiters and bad actors upon a system, even given the most utopian system imaginable.
Bottom line to me is that we’re not living in our natural state anymore (long story), and that such disaster tends to stress us out and mess with us in various ways, up to and including making bad decisions and lashing out upon each other. Indeed, I wish I could say that I was some ‘noble’ kind of person, but I consider myself just as much of an idiot and asshole as the rest of the flock.
Still though-- there’s a sort of ‘release’ upon realising and accepting these things. I’m no saint of course, but understanding and accepting that reality makes me feel kinder and more open to people, and more open to just plain reality in general.
I try to be here as a relief to you all from it, but sometimes that’s makes it hard for me, not feeling I have a place to go.
Well, your wonderful posts are certainly a relief and bosom, source of life to us all, I think.
And you always have a place to go with friends, like me and whoever else you got.
I came here with the mass reddit exodus too, and I loved what was going on here for that summer. It felt like a group of people looking to make a positive place and had more of an old Internet feel.
As we’ve settled in here, it feels we’ve lost much of that and many have fallen back to those old habits of just letting opinions fly at each other, and we’ve got more arguing than cooperation.
I get everyone is upset, but to me, that pushes me to be more cooperative, not more isolated. I was actually happy to see this thread when I got up this morning because people were calmly discussing what was making them upset and feeling trapped by life. If we could approach more threads calmly like this, I’d be so much happier.
I’m surprised you’re at least a little older than me from the sound of it, you have a more youthful character to me! 😁. I do appreciate you and the others that hang out here with me. There’s still quite a number of good people here. My real life is about 50/50 good and bad now, so I’ve been trying to jump between worlds" between people here and IRL, but it’s become a bit more challenging for me recently.
As we’ve settled in here, it feels we’ve lost much of that and many have fallen back to those old habits of just letting opinions fly at each other, and we’ve got more arguing than cooperation.
I mean, that part is totally normal IME, but it also highlights how most users tend to think of a free service as just something to be taken advantage of, which admittedly makes a certain sense… up until a point.
IMO the biggest thing reddit-to-lemmy users missed is that they failed to conceive that content-creation is not necessarily automatic, and that it was pretty-much up to them to ‘do their part.’ Again, not all that surprising in the age of community BBS’s to social media, but I guess like you, I’d hoped that there’d be more of a communal awareness & effort against the dangers of big business capturing social media, as it’s done.
If we could approach more threads calmly like this, I’d be so much happier.
Generally I’m in agreement, but I must confess a certain appreciation for a good mix-it-up argument, gloves-off (but still with a politness), hopefully learning where and how I might have been wrong. Seriously, I think it’s because we naked apes tend to be stung so hard by being shown exactly where we’re wrong, that such can actually be a great teaching tool, much more effective than various other methods, par example.
Altho yeah… I’m not sure if such an approach is best for the whole lot of us advanced monkeys. 😂
…you have a more youthful character to me!
It would take a minute to properly explain my rando character, but if it makes sense, I have CFS/ME, which caused me to grow up as if was a refugee from the moon. Simply put-- much of my life has involved living in major frustration, waving goodbye to the things my colleagues and friends were able to dabble in, such as specialised career-learning, pursuing such a career all my working life, being able to keep up with a romantic partner, starting a family, and enjoying the fruits of a well-lived life. So in the face of all that, I felt like I had to come up with a variety of wild improvisation in order to… find my niche, I guess. (again, long complicated story)
That said, I sincerely apologise if my sometimes wild, youthful remarks hurt you or others. Despite the above, I am certainly not here to abuse or be mean towards others if I can help it. Indeed, maintaining awareness of my dumbass self is pretty much in my top-three of self-awareness, haha.
My real life is about 50/50 good and bad now, so I’ve been trying to jump between worlds" between people here and IRL, but it’s become a bit more challenging for me recently.
Damn, sorry to hear that, matey. :S
So far I’ve appreciated messaging with you, altho I can be (naturally) slow to respond at times, given my condition. Still, feel free…!
Ooh ooh, and I finally got around to posting that ‘mystery owl’ post I’d mentioned last week. ^^
I did expect a bit more content when I first came here. Most posts I feel had like 3 comments at best. It’s come a long way, and now I really can get a full day’s worth if what I need from here alone. It’s not as friendly as it was, but I think it still has a better ratio of positivity compared to Reddit. There feels like a good amount of people now that I don’t recognize all the regular commenters names anymore too, so it feels like participation is getting better as far as comments go anyway.
I’ve gotten over a decent bit of my anxiety being a poster by now, but I grew up always feeling like I was useless crap, so I always feel people are mad at me and things I do aren’t good enough, so it’s taken a bit, and things I duct expect can still get me anxious. I try to remain peaceful, so I’m not used to people just coming at me. I especially don’t expect it here where I’m just trying to be the Bob Ross of Owls or something. 😀
I wonder if my old friend’s mom had something like CFS/ME. I knew him for like ten years and while we weren’t at his place much, I think I only saw his mom out of bed twice. She looked normal and all, but she was just always resting. He had some weird thing too where he would just curb through all his energy really quickly and have to eat pretty often despite being really skinny.
I’m glad you still find ways to enjoy yourself. I’m certainly much more familiar with you after this thread now, so I shouldn’t be caught off guard now! I’ve been in a better mood this week, but it’s more due to some of my frustrations turning more to the absurd at this point. A lot this week involves my new work safety improvements. They messed up my whole work area, it’s been over a year they’ve been remodeling to make it safer, and I’ve found everything they put in was done wrong, and most everything is more dangerous than it was before.
I work with compressed and liquified gases, so there is a real danger of suffocation, and they took me from an open space to a mostly enclosed one with “safety features.” Only most of their tech doesn’t seem to work, and more importantly, I’m finding most of it fails to an on state and doesn’t turn off my equipment should an emergency happen.
I discovered this during a false alarm, and none of the responding security or safety people had any idea how the system was supposed to work. So I’ve been making a stink about that.
I like your kakapo! I’m sad we don’t have many land birds anymore. They’re all so cool!
I was indeed a bit playful, my friend. Possibly even sarcastic.
I’m not sure, really; because sometimes the meaning bursts out, looking to reconcile its own meaning.
If it helps, I’m normally pretty chill about stuff, but what just happened in LaLaLand is akin to jumping right in to a volcano, i.e. kerplonk and sizzle.
Make of that what you will, if you like.
Ok, I just feel I’ve been seeing a lot of frustration on the platform, even with the filters I’ve set up, and I didn’t want it to chase me in here.
You’ve always been good, but a lot of people seem easier to touch off than ever. I just want us all to be chill here. Glad we’re still good!
Oh, shoot, sorry, what’s up with that?
I mean… I hope we can all understand the sheer frustration upon the insane US election result, right? But… are you thinking that it’s specifically worse than that…? I mean, floof man, let’s just get back to owls, if so…?
There’s the election, which has people rightfully mad, but I feel 99% of us are on the same side of that, but everyone seems angsty with each other, people mad at the .World staff over bans, and now drama over the 196 people and blahaj. Just too much fighting and not enough community. I try to be here as a relief to you all from it, but sometimes that’s makes it hard for me, not feeling I have a place to go.
Ah, I think I see what you’re saying.
Myself, I was joyful to discover the Fediverse at one point, being utterly disgusted with Reddit’s management (ala the summer of 2023 crackdowns), and thinking that most people here would automagically share a sort of ‘uplifting, positive mindset.’ Sadly, the same old behavior that I’ve seen online since the late 80’s (yes, I’m old) was still in full effect, so unfortunately (IMO) there’ll always be abusers, exploiters and bad actors upon a system, even given the most utopian system imaginable.
Bottom line to me is that we’re not living in our natural state anymore (long story), and that such disaster tends to stress us out and mess with us in various ways, up to and including making bad decisions and lashing out upon each other. Indeed, I wish I could say that I was some ‘noble’ kind of person, but I consider myself just as much of an idiot and asshole as the rest of the flock.
Still though-- there’s a sort of ‘release’ upon realising and accepting these things. I’m no saint of course, but understanding and accepting that reality makes me feel kinder and more open to people, and more open to just plain reality in general.
Well, your wonderful posts are certainly a relief and bosom, source of life to us all, I think.
And you always have a place to go with friends, like me and whoever else you got.
I came here with the mass reddit exodus too, and I loved what was going on here for that summer. It felt like a group of people looking to make a positive place and had more of an old Internet feel.
As we’ve settled in here, it feels we’ve lost much of that and many have fallen back to those old habits of just letting opinions fly at each other, and we’ve got more arguing than cooperation.
I get everyone is upset, but to me, that pushes me to be more cooperative, not more isolated. I was actually happy to see this thread when I got up this morning because people were calmly discussing what was making them upset and feeling trapped by life. If we could approach more threads calmly like this, I’d be so much happier.
I’m surprised you’re at least a little older than me from the sound of it, you have a more youthful character to me! 😁. I do appreciate you and the others that hang out here with me. There’s still quite a number of good people here. My real life is about 50/50 good and bad now, so I’ve been trying to jump between worlds" between people here and IRL, but it’s become a bit more challenging for me recently.
I mean, that part is totally normal IME, but it also highlights how most users tend to think of a free service as just something to be taken advantage of, which admittedly makes a certain sense… up until a point.
IMO the biggest thing reddit-to-lemmy users missed is that they failed to conceive that content-creation is not necessarily automatic, and that it was pretty-much up to them to ‘do their part.’ Again, not all that surprising in the age of community BBS’s to social media, but I guess like you, I’d hoped that there’d be more of a communal awareness & effort against the dangers of big business capturing social media, as it’s done.
Generally I’m in agreement, but I must confess a certain appreciation for a good mix-it-up argument, gloves-off (but still with a politness), hopefully learning where and how I might have been wrong. Seriously, I think it’s because we naked apes tend to be stung so hard by being shown exactly where we’re wrong, that such can actually be a great teaching tool, much more effective than various other methods, par example.
Altho yeah… I’m not sure if such an approach is best for the whole lot of us advanced monkeys. 😂
It would take a minute to properly explain my rando character, but if it makes sense, I have CFS/ME, which caused me to grow up as if was a refugee from the moon. Simply put-- much of my life has involved living in major frustration, waving goodbye to the things my colleagues and friends were able to dabble in, such as specialised career-learning, pursuing such a career all my working life, being able to keep up with a romantic partner, starting a family, and enjoying the fruits of a well-lived life. So in the face of all that, I felt like I had to come up with a variety of wild improvisation in order to… find my niche, I guess. (again, long complicated story)
That said, I sincerely apologise if my sometimes wild, youthful remarks hurt you or others. Despite the above, I am certainly not here to abuse or be mean towards others if I can help it. Indeed, maintaining awareness of my dumbass self is pretty much in my top-three of self-awareness, haha.
Damn, sorry to hear that, matey. :S
So far I’ve appreciated messaging with you, altho I can be (naturally) slow to respond at times, given my condition. Still, feel free…!
Ooh ooh, and I finally got around to posting that ‘mystery owl’ post I’d mentioned last week. ^^
I did expect a bit more content when I first came here. Most posts I feel had like 3 comments at best. It’s come a long way, and now I really can get a full day’s worth if what I need from here alone. It’s not as friendly as it was, but I think it still has a better ratio of positivity compared to Reddit. There feels like a good amount of people now that I don’t recognize all the regular commenters names anymore too, so it feels like participation is getting better as far as comments go anyway.
I’ve gotten over a decent bit of my anxiety being a poster by now, but I grew up always feeling like I was useless crap, so I always feel people are mad at me and things I do aren’t good enough, so it’s taken a bit, and things I duct expect can still get me anxious. I try to remain peaceful, so I’m not used to people just coming at me. I especially don’t expect it here where I’m just trying to be the Bob Ross of Owls or something. 😀
I wonder if my old friend’s mom had something like CFS/ME. I knew him for like ten years and while we weren’t at his place much, I think I only saw his mom out of bed twice. She looked normal and all, but she was just always resting. He had some weird thing too where he would just curb through all his energy really quickly and have to eat pretty often despite being really skinny.
I’m glad you still find ways to enjoy yourself. I’m certainly much more familiar with you after this thread now, so I shouldn’t be caught off guard now! I’ve been in a better mood this week, but it’s more due to some of my frustrations turning more to the absurd at this point. A lot this week involves my new work safety improvements. They messed up my whole work area, it’s been over a year they’ve been remodeling to make it safer, and I’ve found everything they put in was done wrong, and most everything is more dangerous than it was before.
I work with compressed and liquified gases, so there is a real danger of suffocation, and they took me from an open space to a mostly enclosed one with “safety features.” Only most of their tech doesn’t seem to work, and more importantly, I’m finding most of it fails to an on state and doesn’t turn off my equipment should an emergency happen.
I discovered this during a false alarm, and none of the responding security or safety people had any idea how the system was supposed to work. So I’ve been making a stink about that.
I like your kakapo! I’m sad we don’t have many land birds anymore. They’re all so cool!