Also, thank you for posting and commenting and making such an exciting community thrive!
I check in throughout the day and scroll a little when I get in-between sorts of moments, also watching for notifications. It’s still just fitting into my regular day though, a couple minutes here, a couple minutes there.
It’s actually a lot better than reddit for that, since there isn’t as much activity, so I seldom get sucked deeply in like you can with something with endless content.
I love seeing familiar faces. It’s like talking to your neighbors. I feel it’s an investment. :)
I share your sentiment. I feel optimistically productive while posting, at least some of the time
What else am I supposed to do at work?
I have a very irregular work schedule, resulting in a lot of free time punctuated by periods of intense crunch. It’s not unusual for me to have a few weeks at a time just empty of work.
I post my hobby/sidegig tabletop commission projects, since I’d have been working on them even without Lemmy. Then since in real life I come across many odd things in my traveling, I’ll make sure to snap some photos.
Then I just have a daily habit of browsing certain sites and feeds related to various Lemmy communities and linking to Lemmy whatever catches my eye.
What commissions do you do and in what community do you post them?
Tabletop miniatures. I post in [email protected] and [email protected]
Most new OC I post there is a commission.
Nice!
my job doesn’t pay me enough to care about it for the entire time i’m working
Nice, here’s to hoping you can whittle down the few hours you are not on Lemmy even further.
This is my go-to “too long to stare at the wall, but not long enough to play a phone game” time waster.
A while ago, I had A LOT of free time to shitpost on social media, and I was beginning to miss it.
I don’t have as much time anymore. 😭
I’m sorry for your loss.
Claw that free time back.
I’ve been on summer break since May. Started back Monday and I’m very very angry with our new ‘leadership’ team, so I spend every possible minute browsing my phone. My other activity is deciding on the words I’ll say and what song will play as i drop a match behind me on my way out.
“Oh, I forgot…”
drops match
Cue “It’s getting boring by the sea” by blood red shoes.
That’s a good continual conundrum.
Happy judgments to you.
Recovering from cancer, no job, no friends, too much time.
Congratulations on the first mark! That’s great to hear.
How much longer in your recovery regimen?
Are you pretty active again?
Thank you so much! I just got news last week that I’m in full remission (although still incurable because myeloma) and my blood tests are “pristine”. Still suffering from extreme post-chemo fatigue, both mental and physical. It is what it is, better than the alternative.
I hope you’re okay.
I am, thank you. My days are slow and gentle, and I take better care of myself now.
My job mostly entails me working in a ticketing system all day. When I’m all caught up and there’s no backlog of tickets, I usually kill time hanging out here while I wait for more to come in.
Other than some jerks that I’ve blocked, being on here reminds me of the old / early days of reddit…before it became Spez’s money mill. I find Lemmy to be fairly informative and entertaining. We have a long way to go before becoming a substantial archive of knowledge, but it’s kind of exciting to see it slowly grow.
As for having free time: I browse Lemmy while watching baseball games and during various points of down-time throughout the day / week.
I agree about Lemmy feeling like the early days of Reddit, I’m much more meaningfully engaged here than most of my time on reddit.
I feel like I’m actually talking to people here.
Same. While I wish the user base was larger, I’ve been impressed with some of the answers people have provided to folks needing advice. Also, some of the discussions around news and current events are insightful / thought-provoking.
So much of this! Someone made a comment about an Ovaltine decoder ring and i laugh about that at least once per week.
I have never knew the golden Reddit, I’ve only seen it get just worse and the history of the legendary Aaron Swartz, so I hope you’re telling the truth. ^^
It’s kind of like the one year that Facebook was cool: you signed up, there was active moderation that encouraged community growth, there weren’t too many users endeavoring to be in a monoculture, and the company wasn’t trying to make money at the expense of its user base.
I clean fast food places as my job and it doesn’t take more than a few seconds to see a meme and make a joke about it when I am waiting on a bucket to fill or while on lunch/a break even when I am actually at work. Shit, I can post with one hand while taking out the garbage.
Company time.
If you’re paid to do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
Commendable
I won’t have what I love tainted by employer/customer expectations.
Code’s compiling, ADD
The best XKCD
I got on Lemmy between jobs after my previous company had multiple rounds of layoffs (turns out the financials were pretty bad). I had some ability to hang out and wait for a job that I really wanted and spent a lot of free time online until I found one. The new job has tons of downtime waiting to be needed where I either read books or go online, so a fair amount of Lemmy there too.
