this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
18 points (100.0% liked)

Casual Conversation

2394 readers
46 users here now

Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.


RULES (updated 01/22/25)

  1. Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling. To be concise, disrespect is defined by escalation.
  2. Encourage conversation in your OP. This means including heavily implicative subject matter when you can and also engaging in your thread when possible. You won't be punished for trying.
  3. Avoid controversial topics (politics or societal debates come to mind, though we are not saying not to talk about anything that resembles these). There's a guide in the protocol book offered as a mod model that can be used for that; it's vague until you realize it was made for things like the rule in question. At least four purple answers must apply to a "controversial" message for it to be allowed.
  4. Keep it clean and SFW: No illegal content or anything gross and inappropriate. A rule of thumb is if a recording of a conversation put on another platform would get someone a COPPA violation response, that exact exchange should be avoided when possible.
  5. No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc. The chart redirected to above applies to spam material as well, which is one of the reasons its wording is vague, as it applies to a few things. Again, a "spammy" message must be applicable to four purple answers before it's allowed.
  6. Respect privacy as well as truth: Don’t ask for or share any personal information or slander anyone. A rule of thumb is if something is enough info to go by that it "would be a copyright violation if the info was art" as another group put it, or that it alone can be used to narrow someone down to 150 physical humans (Dunbar's Number) or less, it's considered an excess breach of privacy. Slander is defined by intentional utilitarian misguidance at the expense (positive or negative) of a sentient entity. This often links back to or mixes with rule one, which implies, for example, that even something that is true can still amount to what slander is trying to achieve, and that will be looked down upon.

Casual conversation communities:

Related discussion-focused communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I just got yelled at for being proactive at work and working on stuff in my downtime to complete something before our estimate and improve our product. Apparently that's a big no-no. You're not supposed to ever finish before the estimate you give nor finish past the estimate. You must work the exact amount of time that was estimated. This wasn't even my estimate. I have a much faster estimate and my boss basically doubled it, which I was like fine, sure, but I'm getting blamed for the estimate being so long now.

I'm so done with my job. If the job market weren't a literal dumpster fire right now I'd just leave. I just set my LinkedIn to "Open to Work". Sorry I have a good work ethic. Corporate politics is utter bullshit. I guess the lesson learned is don't ever tell anyone you are being proactive. Finish the work, and then literally do fuck all, and fuck off to wherever while you pretend you are working until the estimate date is reached.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Just landed a job after two months of rejections and fighting to be noticed among 100s of other developers. The depressing winter weather and dwindling bank balance made life feel hopeless at times until I got the call.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I took a week off to work on a game I'm making. Made some progress over past few days.

[–] Evkob 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooh, what kind of game? Video? Tabletop?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a small videogame I've been doing in my spare time. There's no story or goal at the moment. I recorded a GIF a while back:

[–] Evkob 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought this was a giant beaver at first, I'm not at all disappointed this isn't the case.

Seriously though, looks cool! I always love games where you can interact with the environment like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I left Reddit during the API fiasco. Tried Lemmy, ran into problem after problem. Went back to Reddit for 3 months, and go deep into the enshittification process. Signed up here today. Hoping I can settle in here!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Same boat! Hope it works out!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well first off, welcome back!

What kind of content or communities (that's what we call subreddits,) are you looking for?

If you're looking for communities, I would suggest starting with this nifty website It has a visual database of... (checks notes) 28,178 communities (!?!) and 563 instances to choose from.

If you're looking for content, there's nothing wrong with searching all and new. Check out [email protected] for help finding newer communities. And here is a long list of communities that aren't political, full of memes or tech.

And if you have any questions about Lemmy, head over to [email protected] for assistance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, thanks for the suggestions! 🙏 I'm interested in nature, music, conlangs, poetry, songwriting... those are probably the main ones.

Last time a big problem was my feed would literally not change for long periods... then it would update very slowly. I was wary of signing up to instances just to make my feed flow, because that would mean my feed would be full of things I'm not interested in. But I guess I just didn't find the instances I was looking for.

Will search again now!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Be default the sorting of your front page is likely set to "Active", try different sorting options to see if that changes things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I manually set it to New, but your point still stands. I'll try some other settings too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I would suggest setting your account to filter by "new" content. "Scale" is also useful. IIRC: It filters like "new" but uses an algorithm to show content from more of the subbed communities, instead of only showing content most recently posted, from your subs.