I followed people who made things that I liked to get the latest news about those things. I participated a lot in group watching of trash TV, that's what I miss most. Mastodon doesn't have the numbers yet to do that regularly. Also, customer support for almost any company, where else can you reach someone as easily as on Twitter?
Oh and very local stuff happening right this second. A few years ago, the sirens in my area randomly went off and nobody knew wtf was going on for at least an hour. Turns out they were misfiring and nothing was going on, as we eventually learnt from an official announcement. Twitter was immensely helpful for communication in that situation, not least to see that everybody else was just as confused as I was.
Everybody is saying how the goal of these things isn't to make you feel good, but here's the thing: people keep telling me how "you'll feel better once you've done it" for all kinds of shit as the ultimate reason to "just do it". And then I (somehow manage to) do it and I don't. That's messing with my head and I suspect OP's as well.
"(Okay. Okay, okay, okay, here goes.) Hey, I'm so sorry, I'm so very bad with names, what's yours again? (Gawd that was awful, but it's over, we did it, I'm so proud of us, we overcame our fear and.... FUCK what did they say?!)"
Oh wow, Sound Blaster, I thought I'd gone back in time 25 years, didn't even know they're still a thing. But thinking about it, you probably work professionally with sound so a dedicated sound card would still make sense?
When reddit showed the first signs of something going abysmally wrong, part of my brain thought, 'hey nice, no more reddit might be the best thing to happen to us in a while!' And then I remembered Lemmy is a thing that exists.
I still want the ability. GOING PLACES is one of the most agonisingly boring things. In my last job I regularly stayed late because I was avoiding the "going" part of "going home".
Iirc, contrary to expectation, this isn't in the US but in SE Asia, Korea, I think. Not that that makes it any better, but needless yelling about US school education is the usual response every time this is posted.
I followed people who made things that I liked to get the latest news about those things. I participated a lot in group watching of trash TV, that's what I miss most. Mastodon doesn't have the numbers yet to do that regularly. Also, customer support for almost any company, where else can you reach someone as easily as on Twitter?
Oh and very local stuff happening right this second. A few years ago, the sirens in my area randomly went off and nobody knew wtf was going on for at least an hour. Turns out they were misfiring and nothing was going on, as we eventually learnt from an official announcement. Twitter was immensely helpful for communication in that situation, not least to see that everybody else was just as confused as I was.