Rate Your Music is a great resource for discovery, if a bit snobby.

This is the only “social media” I use, alsthough its really more like a message board than modern social media.

meh, its still not inconvenient enough to pay 10+ dollars a month. The state of adverts online is so egregious that I would probably sooner stop watching Youtube than pay or put up with ads.

I got a wife and kid, theres usually an hour or two between our bedtime and kiddo’s so gaming can still happen.

Together ape strong

Make em kiss each other

Its so funny seeing the cope from tech enthusiasts. They’ll claim copywrite is the devil and AI is good, actually, because it will erase legal ownership of art… because Microsoft and OpenAI and Elon Musk are totally gonna give up everything they make with AI for public use

I consider myself an introvert, and I had to work hard to build that social muscle. Once its built though, you dont have to work as hard to maintain it, and people become less draining. Is it fair that extroverts dont have to work as hard to do this? No. But you have advantages they dont. It sounds like you need to either find a career where you dont need to work in a team (unlikely) or develop your social skills.

You’re right in one sense; the community is small and can have an echo chamber effect like any “small village.” But you can also try other instances, or other Fediverse things or start your own. It goes like this; Reddit had success because they served you interesting things on a silver platter, using extensive venture capital to make it as slick and addictive and popular as possible. Lemmy is not built on capital, at least not on the same scale as Reddit; it is built on labor. You gotta decide what your ideal is.

you can work to live or you can become dependent on others to support you, but somehow you’re gonna need to eat.

If you eat it regularly then you become accustomed to it, but when you stop for awhile it no longer appeals

Lol

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Im a 1 and I like adult content but i especially like games, 3D and traditional animation. Cause yeah, i can go in the spank bank in my head if I need to, but its never gonna be as fantastical as what an animator can do

Those fucks.

Ketchup is pretty overpowered for anything but the blandest foods. I like mustard and/or mayo in most cases

Proteins and starch interact with heat differently? Crazy world bruh.

It never went away, just the degree of desperation has changed

Never take a break from culture. As soon as you take a year off you will be irrelevant. If that sound exhausting (it is) then congratulations; you have discovered why older people are never on top of pop culture.