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I remember several years ago r/Casual Conversation was brimming with interesting and candid discussion. As it gained more and more traction I saw it go through the same evolution that killed r/IAmA and r/askreddit. More popularity means more traffic, more traffic means more posts, more posts means stricter moderating, stricter moderating means less "casual" posts. Before long it was just another upvote machine, and that's when I dipped out.

So having said that, how is your morning going? Did you do anything cool this weekend?

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[โ€“] t0fr 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

[email protected] seems like what you're looking for.

Having a good morning and had a good busy weekend. But not enough time for myself. You?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good! I had a comfortably lazy weekend- nothing special but hey that's the beauty of it. Lately I've been thinking a lot about what "wasting time" actually means. If I spend an entire day reading a good book or binging a show I really like, is that waste of time? I would say no. But if I spend a whole day browsing memes, I feel like shit for not doing anything constructive with my time. So what's the real difference? The Reddit exodus has lead me to try and spend my time more productively, but the older I get, the fuzzier the line gets between recreation and productivity. If I spend an hour watching a documentary about lions, I feel like I'm expanding my horizons. But you could say that since lions have no place in my day-to-day life, learning about them is a waste of my time. Knowing a bunch of stuff about lions is effectively just as useless as knowing a bunch of one-liners from action movies. I don't really have a point to this, its just been on my mind lately.

[โ€“] t0fr 1 points 2 years ago

Taking some time for yourself is always a good thing and that's not a waste of time. We shouldn't feel bad about not being productive. Life isn't about being productive every waking second, and feeling bad about that is not productive or helpful at all. Sure we all have things to get done. And one of those things is to take care of ourselves. Is watching an hour long lion documentary a waste of it's good for you?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You sound like you know wassup; what's the quickest way for someone like me to navigate to a suggested community like the one you've mentioned? It's clearly not a URL extension, and clicking the link wants me to send an email XD I know I can search, but are there shortcuts around this place?

[โ€“] t0fr 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chat is a community at the beehaw.org instance If you copy and past the link into the search bar in your instance you should be able to find it, sometimes it takes a couple of tries if nobody is subscribed to that community on your instance. Also, the link [email protected] should also work I believe?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for taking the time :) for once, it has finally clicked that I can drop the topic@instance on the end of my "signed in" instance domain with a /c/. Man, people who aren't computer people or curious thinkers will never figure this place out.

Although maybe that's a good thing.

[โ€“] t0fr 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah there are a bunch of ways to do things. And tbh, I didn't do it that way ever myself. But true that does work.

It currently really is a place for tinkerers

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh wow, I completely forgot about r/casualconversation. Never subbed but I used to see it on r/all often, but it's been years.

That said, I caught up on sleep mostly and messed around with my 3d printers. Got an appt in about an hour and couldn't sleep last night so been up all night, lol. So much for catching up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'll miss all the subreddits full of folks discovering identities, finding new ways to understand themselves. I hope we'll hit a critical mass over here so folks can find themselves!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Seems the Lemmy servers are getting hammered right now with the thousands of new users.

It was nice to finally have free time with a lot of sun this weekend. Spent all Saturday drinking Pimm's on the roof terrace with a friend of a friend. Then most of Sunday playing Zelda TOTK.

[โ€“] Evkob 3 points 2 years ago

Seconding [email protected]!

I had a great weekend, it was my friend's birthday and he always organizes a kind of "mini-Olympics" where we just play sports in the park all day, complete with banners for the champions! My body is now killing me but my spirit feels rejuvenated.

It's great fun to go play outside with your friends as an adult, it's not something we do nearly as much as we should. Go play outside! Kick a ball! Throw a ball! Run! Climb on things!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Got back from dropping my son at table-tennis. My neighbour's dog was trotting toward my house and my cat was sat in front.

He is scared of my cat because she hissed at him once. Poor boy was stuck in a limbo, unable to go back was the terrifying black and white lioness was blocking one route and and my car blocked the other.

Eventually he decided the car was safer than the cat and went home.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Could be better. Don't feel like going into details in the moment, but its alright.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

good!! no i didnt do naything cool except sign up for matrix and lemmy and deleted reddit :] i also got a 5 star animal crossing island

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

my morning's going really well. watched some bluey with my daughter before she got picked up by her grandma and i'm currently being groomed by my new 11 week old kitten while i ignore a meeting. weekend was pretty good too. got the cat and played some dnd for the first time in like 3 months. we all forgot some pretty basic rules but it was a blast. our wizard killed 2 players at once by dropping a levitated one 20 feet ontop of another one. it was pretty funny.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Went to an agricultural show over the weekend, saw all the animals, petted the goats, cheered the horses. Ate the food, but it seems like it's gone downhill on that front lately, the food offering was always the best part of the show but it was just a let down.

I assume it's the world situation of all the stuff being more expensive so cheap good Street food isn't much a thing now, but such is life! Anyway I hope you OP, and all those reading this have a good week <3

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My morning is going good. I have the day off and a friend's birthday party to go to later. I'm going to spend some time rehearsing music for the barbershop chorus I sing in, and maybe crochet a little bit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sewing queue finally empty and I've got some breathing room for costuming before the autumn renaissance festivals start up.

[โ€“] investorsexchange 1 points 2 years ago

I went to Lake Louise, hiked a bit, took a photo and didnโ€™t post it on Reddit.