SpeedyCat2014

When my FIL what was a veterinarian was cremated, his remains were in a nice wooden box on his old antique desk. My SIL always referred to it as, “Doc in a box.”

This is great advice, coming from someone who pondered using the “Mother was really sick and had to manage her illness and passing” excuse if I ever went back, as it was true for me too. (I’m sorry for your loss, it’s a really painful life transition, I know.)

I ended up taking a slightly different approach. I worked in IT project management before I retired early. My LinkedIn resume shows me currently employed as an “IT consultant” and will until I decide I need another job or I kick it.

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I’m old and out of the loop but that astroturfing was so blatantly obvious it pinged my BS meter immediately.

Mazel tov!

This is great but I’ve turned it off because sometimes I want to go back to a post I’ve recently read to see new comments.

I really wish there was an option to hide posts I’ve downvoted. It’s still early days so I imagine that will come later.

Thanks for the PSA!

His persecution fetish is showing

• Distraction

• Discussion

Nailed it!

I haven’t been active in the IT world on years, but as a veteran of Usenet from back in the 90’s, I’ve been enjoying how much this distributed setup feels like that; And in no small part because it’s not as easily accessible to the non-techies.

I also feel like the comparison to a “sugar rush” is a good one. Reddit was becoming too much, it was so overrun with bots and trolls. This place feels more sane and less run down.

Plot twist: All of this is made up.

I’m guessing that they will replace all of the mod teams and forcibly re-open the subreddits.

Doubt that will go as well as they’re expecting it to.

Like the world’s largest kidney stone, hopefully.

Change is uncomfortable. There’s just no way around it. And there’s nothing wrong with you feeling that it’s kind of empty here and not what you’re used to.

For me, it will be uncomfortable regardless. My preferred interface (RIF) is gone in 2 weeks so nothing at Reddit will feel comfortable either.

So I’ve chosen to embrace the discomfort of Lemmy’s newness and comparative “emptiness” over the discomfort of using Reddit’s inferior app, for a couple of reasons: First, Reddit turned on us, not the other way around, and second, because this place is relatively new it’s not littered with bots and spammers and trolls. The energy here is just better for me.

Even if all my favorite places and posters aren’t here yet, I’ll be here waiting for them when they arrive, and I’m the meantime, I’ll be doing my part to recreate what I used to love there, here.

I’ve just gotta know was that local dial up in DC Digex?

I worked with Tale@UUNET during the Eternal September, providing NNTP support to our customers. God that was hell.

Half the battle was finding something to put in the tray besides Reddit. Jerboa it is!

Reddit ran me off with a permaban 2 months ago because I wrote about the 3 boxes of liberty metaphor in a comment. 2 million+ imaginary Internet points down the drain. Glad to see the site shoot itself in the foot and looking forward to finding an alternative.

And the obligatory: fuck Spez.