I’ve been off of Reddit since they announced the API changes, and I had been a daily user since 2012. I don’t miss how toxic a lot of the site became, but I wish Lemmy were a bit more active. I tend to browse /all and the site just doesn’t turn over as much. It’s led to me picking up reading again, but at times I find myself sort of just refreshing my phone. Which is a bad waste of time. Not sure what to do about that.
If you’re having a third life crisis (which is what it’s probably closer to than midlife at 29), and it’s at all related to the topics discussed in this thread (modern hustle culture, work environment/productivity) read the book “Four Thousand Weeks.” It was game changing for me in a similar crisis at 29/30.
“You’re not here to make a choice, you’ve already made it. You’re here to try and understand why you made it.”
-The Oracle.
To this day it’s the way I don’t worry about determinism and free will. It doesn’t matter if I truly was the one who made a choice or not—if it was predestined—I’m supposed to learn about why I made that choice.
It’s great. Reminds me more of Reddit when I joined in the early 2010’s.
I know some people got flack for the “Lemmy is great because” threads, but I honestly feel like the majority of Reddit refugees are probably not teenagers. I think the general Lemmy population is a bit older, so the interactions are just much better. I barely ever posted on Reddit post 2017 or so, but I’ve posted a ton so far on here.
Exactly why I will never move back to the Upper Midwest.
I miss being cozy in my living room at night—watching the snow fall down in moonlight.
But that feeling isn’t worth power outages or thinking you can pull out of your driveway without clearing it, just for your car to get stuck and make you late for work.