My bad. I should have understood. Even I, filtering out all the crap, have heard of that, well, that situation ;)
Libb
joined 2 years ago
Isn't it the whole idea? ;)
[user banned for having an opinion that diverges from the group]
Is this something I'm supposed to react to? If so, sorry I don't get it.
Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?
The out of the box experience is not great (neither is Reddit, if you're asking me, it's at least as depressing to see the amount of trash/low effort posts on their home page). But once I switched to 'Subscribed' only view, things were already much better since I was only seeing content I was interested in (aka no politics or drama of any sort).
As already suggested: !newcommunities@lemmy.world is good place to see what's new, also there is !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Most importantly, Lemmy is not Reddit for many reasons but this one is more directly related to your question: it's much smaller (to give you an idea, I moderate a journaling community we recently reached... 300 members (of which less than a handful is active), whereas the Reddit journaling community is 2 Million+ ;). So, there is a lot less content posted on Lemmy. Back on Reddit, I was mostly a commenter (barely posting anything new myself) but I quickly realized that if I wanted to see stuff I was interested in on Lemmy I better start... posting myself ;)
Palm were fine device :)
Also. Airplane mode on a smartphone and the. BAM. New age palm pilot.
How many apps fully work offline, at least without regular connection to check 'your authorization to use the app'? The moment one turns the phone back on, all data that were kept on it are being uploaded.
Thx, I'm exploring this Wiby engine right now.
Like others have mentioned already, don't worry. Downvotes are to be expected.
You need to be ok with people not liking whatever you share. That's how things work, and not just here on Lemmy. You should not worry, they will do it because tgey don't like a picture, because they don't like your pseudo, or they think it's their purpose in life to downvote anything? Who knows and who cares?
It's the same people you meet IRL that may also not like something you said or shared with them. The difference is that IRL people can't click on that Down or Up arrow to let you know how they feel. They need to combine words to make sentences and then they need to talk to you which is a lot more work, often too much work for most people to even try to say anything ;)
It's up to you to decide what matters the most for you:
- The age gap which seems to be bothering you is kind of a moral dilemma (legally, they're both allowed to do what they want), am I right? So, does your principles matter more than having an opportunity to spend some time with your son and maybe get to know his boyfriend a little more than by its age? If that can help you, it's not that rare. Here in France, our very own President (Emmanuel Macron) is some 30 years younger than his spouse (something like that, I have not checked).
- Have you privately discussed what bothers you with your son? What was is opinion on the question? Do you think his judgment was blinded in anyway, or is it just you that feel not at ease with a 20+ years age gap?
- Can you be OK with not liking someone (that has done nothing wrong) but still be sincerely welcoming to them knowing it will make your son happy?
- Do you want to stay a relevant part of you son's future live? I mean, your son is now an adult and will move on to build his own live with his own family, with or without you being part of it and that's up to you. It could be with that older dude or with someone else (maybe even older, or younger? it's up to them) at 21 it's hard to say. But he will live the live he wants, and that will include many mistakes, whether you want him or not. We all have done mistakes, some more often and some more serious than others but well have done some, I'm willing to bet you did some to right?
- Is that King dude an asshole of some sort or is it just you you not liking him being older?
- If you're sure he is doing some huge mistake, do you want to still be there for him when things will turn bad? No need to lie to your son and pretend you're happy if you're not (talk to him, openly but not in a judgmental way it's all that should matter. Just share your opinion/worries and let him understand that no matter what you're OK with whatever he decides to do).
BTW, there is no right or wrong answer here (I know what I would wish to answer, but that's just me). It is the kind of questions I would ask myself if I was facing similar doubts as you are. Hope this helps.
I'm looking for one too, hope you won't mind me taking a seat and see what others may suggest because, well, the full set of the Britannica would be a tad too cumbersome ;)
Smartphones are nothing more than gentrified PDAs…
Less any semblance of privacy? We can still have the impression we've some control over what it does but for how long?
My last PDA was a Palm Tungsten T5, liked it a lot ;)
+1 to this.
And?
English is not my first language (so, looking at your pseudo, by all means help me improve my grammar my dear officer) but it seemed to me the OP was looking to remove some crap from their timeline, not to procrastinate less: