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  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • I used to use Reddit some, although I would never manage to stick with it well and become an accepted regular anywhere, but it was big enough that I never realized it was a link aggregator before all else, since people were just talking about whatever in communities. I actually had to look up some fediverse site yesterday when checking what’s out there for blogging and whatnot for it to label reddit and lemmy explicitly as link aggregators, for me to really get it.

    Forming their own thoughts, is it the voting, is it the culture wars? I know I have the chilling effect of thinking that my response to some article will just get tons of downvotes so why bother. And I don’t think upvotes mean the same thing to me that they mean to the average person.

    Coordinating with other people, I’ve had zero success with and must just not have any clue how to go about it.

  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • Thank you. Whatever I’ve done online has always been more or less unwelcome. I saw that my post has a 0, which must really be some negative value. I knew at least some people would be defensive, group membership, tribalism, the angry insecure thrill of attacking outsiders, but I wasn’t sure whether it would lean that way overall.

  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • That’s the spirit!

  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • I have look at it, and if I have something that’s solidly casual, it could fit there, although I’m also thinking that if I have three casual thoughts in a day, now I’m already almost flooding the place. Would have to start slowly in that case.

  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • My understanding is that on Mastodon, you keep it pretty short, and that you have to be followed by people by having gotten reposted by the right popular people or no one will ever know you exist. I’m not very comfortable with chasing popularity. And when I looked at Mastodon, it didn’t look very light.

  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • I get that a question brings more engagement, but if I don’t have a question, I don’t have a question. And I might have a thought I want to put down in writing, and maybe someone will read it. Even if no one happens to read it, putting it where someone could read it and not just on paper or a nowhere unknown blog can feel better.

    Healthier, maybe less combative from getting a better understanding of who someone is.

  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • I’ll feel like it would be nice to interact with some people, and maybe I want to write some, but I won’t have any questions, and I don’t feel like reacting to what happened in politics today perhaps, and I don’t enjoy memes.

  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • I expect it would be too much for me alone. And do I put them all in one poorly-named general community that I make that ends up a grab-bag, or do I make lots of communities that I only touch once in six months when I happen to have a thought or experience in some topic and I also happen to remember that I even have that community to write in?

  • Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be?

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  • I’m not thinking specifically of deep thoughts or shallow thoughts, but when I happen to think of anything, it could be nice to communicate it to other people where it might spur thoughts for them or conversation or even just put it down in writing even if no one cares. If it’s casual enough, there is casualconversation, but if it doesn’t fit in the box well, it doesn’t fit in the box well. Or not even thoughts exactly as I might want to talk about what I did today or saw today.

  • GenXers, would you go back to your youth for a do-over?

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  • Ah, moving…there was a moment in my early teens when we could have moved, and I sometimes wonder how that could have opened up my life. Of course I didn’t know our finances and had little grasp of what was going on with my mother psychologically.

  • GenXers, would you go back to your youth for a do-over?

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  • I haven’t seen it. I usually need a very strong reason to make myself watch something with Robin Williams in it, but I’m more open to it than seeing Jim Carrey, or especially Adam Sandler.

  • GenXers, would you go back to your youth for a do-over?

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  • I saw a television episode on Youtube once where a guy went back because there was the girl he didn’t get when he was around 17. She had been so built up with the glow of memory, but then seeing her again with adult eyes, she was like a kid to him. Pretty girl, but someone whose memory he could move on from now.

    Maybe Back Then would be less of a nebulous, mysterious thing to think over if I had photos or video from back then. No photos or video? Must have been real horse-and-buggy days.

  • Best of USA's Night Flight short films 1986 (Just the films)

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  • I saw Night Flight in syndication, and I loved the weird cartoons and films and everything.

    I’ve tried to remember why I never mentioned it to anyone at school, and I think I must have been afraid somehow.

  • Did you fit the stereotype of the immature teen making wild mistakes?

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  • It was a long time before I even learned (from reading what others had to say about their teens and early 20s) that a “normal” person was trying on lots of identities/subcultures to see where they could be coolest and most liked and also that they were looking around for specific cool people they wanted to be like and copying them.

    If I try to think who was cool whom I could have wanted to be, I don’t really think of anyone. Maybe I had a strong sense of myself, or maybe I wasn’t around people I thought that highly of, or maybe I was just very certain I was never going to be cool so I shouldn’t embarrass myself by trying.

  • In old biographies, there was the college “bull session”, staying up late and discussing the issues of the world. Did you have that experience?

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  • How silly. If I hated them, I wouldn’t be reading their biographies.

  • I would like a Things I Like community

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  • Yes, that's it.

  • Do you think it’s worth using high-gluten/bread flour in starter?

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  • I wasn't thinking of higher gluten in the starter specifically, but rather whether a starter destroys gluten to the point where maybe I should be using the cheapest option in the starter and not waste the flour that I will use later in the process.

  • I would like a Things I Like community

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  • Not sure I’d want to moderate it, and I don’t think my instance allows random communities.

  • Do you think it’s worth using high-gluten/bread flour in starter?

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  • I’ve only recently even tried baking with rye, with rye flour being niche and relatively expensive in the US :(