Also, thank you for posting and commenting and making such an exciting community thrive!

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    I love seeing familiar faces. It’s like talking to your neighbors. I feel it’s an investment. :)

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      I share your sentiment. I feel optimistically productive while posting, at least some of the time

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    I check in throughout the day and scroll a little when I get in-between sorts of moments, also watching for notifications. It’s still just fitting into my regular day though, a couple minutes here, a couple minutes there.

    It’s actually a lot better than reddit for that, since there isn’t as much activity, so I seldom get sucked deeply in like you can with something with endless content.

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    A while ago, I had A LOT of free time to shitpost on social media, and I was beginning to miss it.

    I don’t have as much time anymore. 😭

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    I have a very irregular work schedule, resulting in a lot of free time punctuated by periods of intense crunch. It’s not unusual for me to have a few weeks at a time just empty of work.

    I post my hobby/sidegig tabletop commission projects, since I’d have been working on them even without Lemmy. Then since in real life I come across many odd things in my traveling, I’ll make sure to snap some photos.

    Then I just have a daily habit of browsing certain sites and feeds related to various Lemmy communities and linking to Lemmy whatever catches my eye.

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      Congratulations on the first mark! That’s great to hear.

      How much longer in your recovery regimen?

      Are you pretty active again?

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        Thank you so much! I just got news last week that I’m in full remission (although still incurable because myeloma) and my blood tests are “pristine”. Still suffering from extreme post-chemo fatigue, both mental and physical. It is what it is, better than the alternative.

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    I have a bad habit of leaving comments when I want to leave none ever. So comments >0 is too many by my own reckoning. I have the free time because depression. I make these comments because I’ve lost my self control in that respect

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      I seem to compulsively leave comments as well, I think they help give body to the community.

      Its good Lemmy work

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        That’s a good way to look at it lol, I’m contributing to the Lemmy fluff. Someone will read it and eat 5 seconds of their time, thus contributing to the goal of Lemmy; wasting time

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    This is my go-to “too long to stare at the wall, but not long enough to play a phone game” time waster.

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    I’ve been on summer break since May. Started back Monday and I’m very very angry with our new ‘leadership’ team, so I spend every possible minute browsing my phone. My other activity is deciding on the words I’ll say and what song will play as i drop a match behind me on my way out.

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      “Oh, I forgot…”

      drops match

      Cue “It’s getting boring by the sea” by blood red shoes.

      That’s a good continual conundrum.

      Happy judgments to you.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    I clean fast food places as my job and it doesn’t take more than a few seconds to see a meme and make a joke about it when I am waiting on a bucket to fill or while on lunch/a break even when I am actually at work. Shit, I can post with one hand while taking out the garbage.

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      I agree about Lemmy feeling like the early days of Reddit, I’m much more meaningfully engaged here than most of my time on reddit.

      I feel like I’m actually talking to people here.

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          So much of this! Someone made a comment about an Ovaltine decoder ring and i laugh about that at least once per week.

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        I have never knew the golden Reddit, I’ve only seen it get just worse and the history of the legendary Aaron Swartz, so I hope you’re telling the truth. ^^

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          It’s kind of like the one year that Facebook was cool: you signed up, there was active moderation that encouraged community growth, there weren’t too many users endeavoring to be in a monoculture, and the company wasn’t trying to make money at the expense of its user base.

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    I quit work when I was 35 and am now 58 (FIRE long before it became a thing and I didn’t even consider grifting off the life choice) . I dont consider myself prolific but I have time to post if I wish.