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Meta destroying the Fediverse.

I'm concerned that spez could be right: This will blow over, Reddit users in general don't care enough. Even a lot of us who fled here might return eventually because that's just where most of the discussion is. (Especially for breaking news, niche topics, etc).

I really wanted the admins to change course, and failing that, for Reddit to fall, but I think it's likely we'll get neither, and Lemmy will remain a sidenote. (As much as it has already grown, which is amazing to see, the whole network is still like 10% of one single top subreddit)

I obviously hope I'm wrong and that the growth we've had in the last month will just continue.

Job worries as well. New place a lot more money. Can't stop thinking about work outside of work. I feel like my training was rushed and I don't really know what I'm doing. It's all so weird. Stressed and anxious all the time because of this place.

/OCD intensifies

I was given a bunch of medication for muscle spasms this week and my brain keeps having the intrusive thought of "you know, all of your organs are going to shut down because of this stuff." Fortunately, I'm self aware enough to tell my brain to stfu and relax. As far as medication goes, it's all pretty mild stuff like naproxen lol.

My father went missing, we found him and he's in a coma.

So now I'm preparing my life to take care of him once he's out of the coma.

My boss texted a group thread at 10:30pm and I responded in 3 different clear but relatively lighthearted ways to stop texting because I was in bed. He got annoyed. 20m later my watch gave me an alert that my heart rate was 114bpm for more than 15m and now I can't sleep.

A potential shortage of beans.

Gotta clean up house before guests arrive in a few days.

Gotta finish rebuilding the front ramp.

Gotta move some stuff in the container.

Can't figure out why the caravan gas pilot light goes out after 4 seconds. (well it hasn't been used for 25 years...)

Tired. Might nap at 3pm. Or shortly.

Gotta go replace a modem 40 minutes away

Gotta clear the store room some.

Weatherboards need painting soon.

Big pine tree wants to fall on the shed.

Mailbox geocache has stopped working. Need to disable it on the site.

Gotta record a sponsor for the station.

Dog needs a walk.

Need to do some shopping.

Garden is a mess.

The sun is out, yay. Can run appliances for free today.

I'm seeing a nice girl for the first time in a long time and I'm afraid she's gonna flip a switch on me like all the others and stop talking to me for reasons I don't understand

My credit card expired on the first and I have a very expensive dental appointment next week. I'm watching my mailbox like a hawk and praying that the new card will get here in time. It's my fault since I most likely threw the original replacement out thinking it was junk mail.

My remote call-center job. It takes it out of me like no other job has. Every single second is measured and tracked and "optimized". Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful to have the job. It pays better than anything else I'd be qualified for (probably) at 18.50 an hour, and I'm immunocompromised, so I need remote work. More than that, I'm genuinely good at it. But I can't help but feel that it's not for me forever, and I don't know how to transition out of it.

(It's iOS and macOS tech support)

Feels insignificant compared to a lot of posts in here who actually have real problems but I was at kids party yesterday and then get the "sorry we found lice" message haha So treating the family for lice today just in case hooray

This week has been both the week we moved into our new apartment, and also the week our country celebrates by blowing shit up for 6+ nights straight. Our dogs are deathly afraid of fireworks. Last night I had to run my wife to the ER, which is literally 2 minutes away, and in that time our dogs destroyed the front door frame of our new apartment.

Our landlord, who we've only met once, just got back from vacation. Can't wait to tell them how our dogs are destroying their house.

I forgot to pay my tolls last month and I have no idea how much they cost. All my money is towards rent and food.

Really don't want to go to jail or get a court order.

The point of my existence, or more specifically, why I keep writing my odd thoughts on here or back then on Reddit, when I‘m already aware of how useless it all is. I‘ve been reading various books on this and the more I read, the less significance I see in it. Yet, here I am, again writing something. I suppose it‘s some sort of distraction or sublimation for me.

My mom first signing up to FurAffinity to follow an artist she likes who left Twitter and now having a Threads account despite the permissions it had

All things considered, I don't know if it counts as overthinking, but this ocean temperature is a bit concerning and I wonder how bad next year will be. https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

I have an appointment with a dentist to have some teeth pulled, and a chronic sinus infection needing surgery simultaneously. The antibiotics I’m on amplify the already massive anxiety I have to the point of paranoia and panic attacks.

Honestly, I'm not an overthinker any more, or at least I don't see myself as an overthinker since atomoxetine is doing its magic. But in other circumstances, I would be thinking about this Meta thing, and about what people would think if I wrote this comment, and about why I screwed things up so much in the past...

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The people that are still holding up hope for Reddit didn’t really get what the poorer users of Reddit and third-party apps stood for. Plus mods that depended on third-party apps. The ones that are keeping hope alive are people late to the game I’m assuming. They started using it like a month ago and like it. Since have divided the Offical and are toeing the line. Time will tell what happens. Mastodon has a huge base even though twitter still exist twitter/mastodon/Reddit/lemmy/kbin can do-exist nothing wrong with it!