sotolf

Can confirm, am Norwegian and love freshly harvested potatoes :)

Hmm, none of them except maybe expanse fits to me, I read the whole series as it came out, and it was decent, I liked the different genre for each book schtick that they were doing.

I'm not much for the depressing and horror stuff, I need optimistic happy stuff with good people being good to each other. The world is shitty enough as it is.

The hyperion is hyped up so much by pretensious people that I just never wanted to read it. I did go in that trap with the Banks books, I thought there must be something I'm missing, since so many people love them, but I just never did.

I was moderating, this whole thing started, and I moved over to lemmy, I don't get why people are still continuing to do loads of work on a site that hates them with an even more toxic environment than before, not really for me.

I don't know what stuff you are interested in, and yeah, it's not a platform with algorithms that will push stuff that the site thinks that you will like on you, so you'll have to do some work to find people you like. If you tried mastodon.social or some other humongous instance that doesn't really have a culture itself also it makes the whole thing more difficult, joining something like mastodon.art or hachyderm.io or some other one with an a bit more focused theme will usually be a bit better for getting started since your local feed will not be so random.

For me it's "The golden age of the solar Clipper" series by Nathan Lowell.

It's not about the captains and pew pew laserfights, it's about the people working on trader ships, their small and big problems, their friendships and how they get along. It's a wonderful series of books where "nothing happens" and it still is strangely compelling. I have read the whole series multiple times, and it's one of the few book series that I've done that with.

You can't be following the right people then, I have tons of people speaking the 3 languages that I know well, talking about interesting and fun stuff, sharing things they learned and cool things they made. It's all about curating your feed.

Yeah, sure it's a bit of a hassle, but it's not like it's complex or difficult, that's what I meant compared to how often I do it it has not been an issue, after you have bootstrapped with a couple of follows, and keep an eye on the local feed it's pretty easy to get rolling, and then just following interesting people that the people you talk with boost, or people that you enjoy discussing with. I haven't added someone from a search in years, it's just a bit of work in the beginning.

I was using python for quite a bit, but don't like how cumbersome their types are, I really fell in love with nim when I was looking for alternatives, it's an underdog, but personally I really like the langauge.

Some of us care about privacy and don't want to give out our numbers willy nilly

If I find someone from another instance in my flow I don't need to do anything other than click on them and click follow. As long as you search from your instance, and not somewhere externally you can just follow them. Also the process when it's not your home server it's just a box where you enter your user name, not really convoluted. So I don't see what you're getting so worked up about to be honest.

Sure lemmy is easy in that way, and if you like it more by all means just use it :) Nothing stopping you from that, but you are playing up non issues as "infuriating"

I just read through my feed, and if I find people that look interesting I click the follow button, it's not like it's hard, I have a really interesting feed full of cool stuff.

Yeah, I am really impressed about it, at first I was thinking about what the use of it would be, kind of wouldn't make much of a difference. Then I tried it out, and it just feels like home, it's so much more compact, I really love it, and I've used it for a couple of weeks by now :)