Also, thank you for posting and commenting and making such an exciting community thrive!
Can’t find work
The long, frantic hours of waiting for someone to respond. Always extremely frustrating.
Best of luck on the job hunt
I get bored easily and had a huge Reddit addiction that I’m slowly weaning off of with Lemmy. Now I mix my time between Lemmy, online Manga, and doing little projects on my phone.
Other than some jerks that I’ve blocked, being on here reminds me of the old / early days of reddit…before it became Spez’s money mill. I find Lemmy to be fairly informative and entertaining. We have a long way to go before becoming a substantial archive of knowledge, but it’s kind of exciting to see it slowly grow.
As for having free time: I browse Lemmy while watching baseball games and during various points of down-time throughout the day / week.
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.
Same. While I wish the user base was larger, I’ve been impressed with some of the answers people have provided to folks needing advice. Also, some of the discussions around news and current events are insightful / thought-provoking.
So much of this! Someone made a comment about an Ovaltine decoder ring and i laugh about that at least once per week.
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. ^^
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.
I don’t. But I have many periods of five idle minutes to spare, and I sort by new as default.
I got on Lemmy between jobs after my previous company had multiple rounds of layoffs (turns out the financials were pretty bad). I had some ability to hang out and wait for a job that I really wanted and spent a lot of free time online until I found one. The new job has tons of downtime waiting to be needed where I either read books or go online, so a fair amount of Lemmy there too.
I love seeing familiar faces. It’s like talking to your neighbors. I feel it’s an investment. :)
I share your sentiment. I feel optimistically productive while posting, at least some of the time
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.
It’s Saturday
What else am I supposed to do at work?
I’m constantly bored. So I start scrolling, comment on something, get worked up in an argument, then post/comment somewhere else to cool down. Rinse and repeat
With mobile apps it’s easy to squeeze a 5 minutes there and there, and I like the Lemmy community overall. Its size makes it so there’s more opportunities to provide valuable comments. I’m a software engineer so it’s pretty mentally intensive so I tend to interleave entertainment and work a lot.
My job is mostly only busy first thing in the morning. I go around and swap out empty containers for full ones. Then I have to refill the empties. The machine takes an hour to run, so that leaves me a bunch of downtime.
At night, I’ll make a bunch of posts ahead of time while I watch TV and save the drafts so I can post them quick in the morning before I head off to work. Some days I’ll get too much content, and others nothing, so I have about a week’s buffer of post content.
Ha, this reminds me of another comment about dandori, the Japanese art of time management referenced in Pikmin.
I think they were talking about their work, while you use dandori for the more important lemmyverse. Nice.
This is my go-to “too long to stare at the wall, but not long enough to play a phone game” time waster.
My job mostly entails me working in a ticketing system all day. When I’m all caught up and there’s no backlog of tickets, I usually kill time hanging out here while I wait for more to come in.
I have a job where I don’t do anything ninety-seven percent of the time but I need to be ready for the three percent when shit hits the wall.
