I saw a lot of my own experience in your comment, and wanted to add a bit of my story. I work in web development, and years ago I was tasked with learning Google Ads so we could start offering it as a service to clients. So exciting at first, learning the ins and outs of such a powerful platform -- But in practice, it was a cynical and dehumanizing experience. Dissecting thousands of real human beings' search phrases for some untapped keyword, in an effort to cash in on their weakest moments. Not what I got into this field to do, either.
The only thing I like more than a good cat picture on the Internet, is a good cat picture with a good cat story on the Internet. Animals are great, especially cats. And these are some especially good ones! Thanks for sharing.
This is exactly it for me. Everything else was really enjoyable -- but then it just suddenly ends. There's no freeplay after completing the main story. They went so far as to show a text warning, stating the game is about to end, and you have to confirm to proceed. After that, the only way back in is to load a previous save. I really wanted that unstructured exploration time, like you get after finishing the main story in Skyrim/Fallout/etc.
!Also, I think the "slideshow" style presentation for the ending contributed to this problem. A nice cinematic ending would have had way more weight and felt less tacked-on for me.!<
For what it's worth, I agree with you about Lemmy (and Reddit) not really qualifying as "social media." I think of it more as a spectrum than a binary value...
Old school forums were very specific to a single topic (though most forums I used did have an "Off Topic" board), and only lightly social -- I never knew any forum user outside of their respective forum, and certainly not in real life.
On the opposite end, Facebook/Insta/TikTok are very social -- there's a lot of expectation that you'll be interacting with people that you know personally -- and they are more "agnostic" (?) of any one particular topic.
Reddit and Lemmy land somewhere in between those two extremes, in terms of both the social and topical aspects. But neither cross the line into "social media," at least not for me and my personal definition of the term.
And just to split hairs even a little more, I think Lemmy is more palatable* than Reddit for me, by virtue of the smaller (and generally more tech-savvy) user base.
Abraham Lincoln said something very similar (though the exact nature of the threat he was talking about is the subject of some debates). Those familiar with "Great Moments with Mister Lincoln," the predecessor to Disney's Hall of Presidents, will recognize it. Regardless, it has always stood out to me as very profound and your post reminded me of it:
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
These last few years have continuously provoked the memory of this quote for me as well.
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Not there person you're replying to, but my partner and I have been using Medisafe for a month now, and it's been perfect for our needs.