I agree. I know I initially joined lemmy.ml (before moving to a smaller instance) because of both these reasons. I felt I would miss out on content and that I should join the biggest community.
Wow... thank you for this. This captures my feeling exactly and this is what I and many others miss from life.
I feel you and I experienced the same. I was quite social back in my college days too, even though I was still an introvert. I used to strike up conversation and small talk with people. However, now, just the thought of making eye contact with a stranger is enough for me to avoid going outside or skipping the thing/event altogether.
I mean, I can still do the small talk, but it comes with immense effort, and a bit of awkwardness. Internally I just want to run away and hide in a corner. Never used to happen before.
Works great! I've been playing it ever since I got my deck
I was here when it all happened
The Lord of the Rings.
I watched the movies as a teenager and then read the books and they've forever changed me in a good way. They've helped shape my life, my personality and have been a "light to me in dark places, when all other lights went out".
I am glad to have experienced them.
It hasn't been implemented yet, but I believe it's on the radar
I have the same thought, and is the primary reason why I'm agnostic. I commented this elsewhere in this thread that might be relevant here too:
I'm an agnostic and I read this book called "The God Theory" by Bernard Haisch. The author is a man of science and approaches this problem from a (semi) scientific perspective.
Over the course of the book, he makes hypotheses and challenges them and eventually arrives at a theory that seems a workable explanation of the state of the world and religion in general.
It's a very interesting read and I would 100% recommend it.
I like this. I'm an agnostic and I read this book called "The God Theory" by Bernard Haisch. The author is a man of science and approaches this problem from a (semi) scientific perspective.
Over the course of the book, he makes hypotheses and challenges them and eventually arrives at a theory that seems a workable explanation of the state of the world and religion in general.
It's a very interesting read and I would 100% recommend it. It's been a while since I read it, but his theory at the end is not very different from your comment.
As a person who works in tech and is an early adopter for almost every new gizmo out there, I feel that we were better off back in the day when stuff was all analog and things were done manually.
Sure it was inconvenient, but it made us experience the world more and actually interacted with real people. I have crappy social skills and I have seen the change in myself over the years. I get anxious when my phone rings now, as opposed to being excited back in the day.
Yeah, I agree. Like how Facebook has been dying for a while, but these platforms are immense. Their quality has declined and people (like me) have indeed left, but I don't think they will disappear completely any time soon.
Really great article. I've been hearing about it for a while, but finally managed to read through it fully. Very well thought out and a brilliant write-up IMO.
That's cool! Not that the domain got hijacked, but the fact that the content is still available on other instances. This is brilliant and shows you the benefits of federation VS centralization.