I remember several years ago r/Casual Conversation was brimming with interesting and candid discussion. As it gained more and more traction I saw it go through the same evolution that killed r/IAmA and r/askreddit. More popularity means more traffic, more traffic means more posts, more posts means stricter moderating, stricter moderating means less “casual” posts. Before long it was just another upvote machine, and that’s when I dipped out.
So having said that, how is your morning going? Did you do anything cool this weekend?
[email protected] seems like what you’re looking for.
Having a good morning and had a good busy weekend. But not enough time for myself. You?
Good! I had a comfortably lazy weekend- nothing special but hey that’s the beauty of it. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what “wasting time” actually means. If I spend an entire day reading a good book or binging a show I really like, is that waste of time? I would say no. But if I spend a whole day browsing memes, I feel like shit for not doing anything constructive with my time. So what’s the real difference? The Reddit exodus has lead me to try and spend my time more productively, but the older I get, the fuzzier the line gets between recreation and productivity. If I spend an hour watching a documentary about lions, I feel like I’m expanding my horizons. But you could say that since lions have no place in my day-to-day life, learning about them is a waste of my time. Knowing a bunch of stuff about lions is effectively just as useless as knowing a bunch of one-liners from action movies. I don’t really have a point to this, its just been on my mind lately.
Taking some time for yourself is always a good thing and that’s not a waste of time. We shouldn’t feel bad about not being productive. Life isn’t about being productive every waking second, and feeling bad about that is not productive or helpful at all. Sure we all have things to get done. And one of those things is to take care of ourselves. Is watching an hour long lion documentary a waste of it’s good for you?
You sound like you know wassup; what’s the quickest way for someone like me to navigate to a suggested community like the one you’ve mentioned? It’s clearly not a URL extension, and clicking the link wants me to send an email XD I know I can search, but are there shortcuts around this place?
Chat is a community at the beehaw.org instance If you copy and past the link into the search bar in your instance you should be able to find it, sometimes it takes a couple of tries if nobody is subscribed to that community on your instance. Also, the link [email protected] should also work I believe?
Thank you for taking the time :) for once, it has finally clicked that I can drop the topic@instance on the end of my “signed in” instance domain with a /c/. Man, people who aren’t computer people or curious thinkers will never figure this place out.
Although maybe that’s a good thing.
Yeah there are a bunch of ways to do things. And tbh, I didn’t do it that way ever myself. But true that does work.
It currently really is a place for tinkerers