I dont know… The movies made it seem great, but yeah, its movies.

I think there is something more sinister but thats another topic. Its not hard to see how America has really turned evil the last 10 years.

Winter is beautiful. I take daily walks near the forest and it can be better looking than in summer.

Hope the supreme court is happy to see the country lose everything that made it good in the first place.

Doesnt really work in practice. If a community exists on Lemmy world, you are not going to have success running the same community somewhere else.

Its just the nature of things. Even Lemmy is mostly centralized to large instances, despite its federated technology.

Yeah im currently on a sabbatical and I dont think I will go back to working in tech.

But ive been working with it for 25 years in different roles. Im just tired of seeing the same thing being reinvented again and again under different names.

I dont feel excited about micro services or AI or blockchain. Its just more and more complexity all the time and its exhausting, not interesting.

Also the culture has changed. It used to be a fun profession for figuring out how to write the code to solve something. Now its telling agents what to do, and pressure to always work hard.

It wasnt like that before. The company needed your skills and they couldnt push or replace people very easily. Which meant they treated you well and didnt stress you.

Yeah exactly, they dont have downvotes and any upvote also requires karma, so you cant just create new accounts and bot upvote things.

But yes, its also a much more mature audience at that site. Many are older computer nerds. Lemmy has some of that too though.

They also have a moderator that is full time working on keeping the site clean, so there is that.

But yeah, I really miss discussions where you see unpopular opinions and they are not downvoted, because I can handle seeing that. I may not agree and then I will just ignore or comment, not downvote it.

Without good moderation, it will turn into 4chan though. So yeah, the extremes are not good, have to be in the middle.

I dont think more users is very important. Its not going to make Lemmy change from mostly memes anyway.

The mentality of the largest Lemmy instances is still to moderate away opinions they dont agree with, so this place is never going to be good for any discussions where people disagree strongly.

Most users downvote what they dont agree with. Its a circle jerk echo chamber where we all agree or get downvoted.

But we can all enjoy memes together. :) Its kind of nice. Lemmy is chill and easy. Even kid friendly.

Dylan! You son of a bitch.

I mean, also look at how windows installs programs. Its like a 100 step process taking several minutes, because just putting the files where they need to be is just too simple.

Or the uninstall program, cant just remove the files, no… Need to run full installer backwards to remove all the registry entries and even reboot the system to get rid of it all.

What do you bench, bro.

I dont know if historic data is very interesting. Its the new content we are interested in…

Depends on who you follow, specially on YouTube. There are lots of small channels that just make videos about how they feel and how to improve yourself, for example.

I subscribe to all of those small channels with an interest that i share. Then youtube feels like when it started. Just ordinary people talking and not acting in front of camera.

Voting. You guys are really bad at voting.

I dont care. Whatever it is, I wont be focusing on it. Being pulled into that drama is pointless.

Quit my job and decided to take a gap year. But it wasnt hard…so cant really say im proud of it since it wasnt difficult. I will however say that its really nice to not work (doh).

You know why. The powers that be places a lot of value on him, and nothing on you. If you are just a debt slave, you are insignificant to the matrix.

Even if you would be rich, you wont get into the club of leading the world unless you sold your soul as well.

Evil runs the world but thats the game here - will you let yourself become evil also, or will you be a hero and stay good despite the system?

Yeah it makes me want to take their phone and crush it and scream at them. :)

Ive been thinking about this. Its always other people, at work or other places where we are forced to be, who makes life full of frustrations. And its not like we can leave. We have to be in those places. I think thats what makes us so frustrated.

I also think its normal to be angry and frustrated by that. I just cant imagine being totally fine with it and feeling content and happy around that behavior. Maybe if I was a teenager.

It would be easier to list what I like about it: nothing.

America is working on it with support from mcdonalds.