@[email protected]’s comments were deleted in a thread I was just looking at, and I went onto their profile and it also appears to have been deleted? Anyone have any knowledge about them? It’s sad if we’ve lost such a long-time excellent member of this community.
Oh, I’m glad I left this thread open to come back to later! Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen that Treevan still lives! Hope you’re doing well. Your contributions around here are sadly missed.
Hi Zagorath. I’m doing fine, the usual etc. I do hope that you’re OK too. I’m still around and still reading occasionally, I didn’t leave for mental health reasons or anything like that, I left because I was getting downvoted for opinions about my employment/passion and I figured “fuck everyone then” because while I understand the downvotes don’t mean much, they mean that my opinion wasn’t required or needed in the conversation. Funnily enough, it was Baku that pushed me over the edge and I see that they’re gone too. Yeesh.
I hope you enjoyed the election. Maybe not who won but your work with it. Keep up with writing your opinions, they’re worth reading.
Ha, yeah it’s always fun work. And even the result was pleasantly surprising in some ways, considering 4 weeks ago we were expecting a total wipe-out for Labor.
I hope you’re finding the Aussie Mastodon community more to your liking and more enjoyable, but also I’d like you to know that at least from me, your opinions were valued here very much.
I can’t even talk politics now, for some reason half the people I work with are more interested in conservative American politics and that is not in my wheelhouse.
As for Mastodon, no, I don’t enjoy it in the traditional sense. I use it for a fairly decent environmental etc. news feed (hashtags mostly) which has low angst, but, unfortunately there is little to no discussion of the topic at hand. I can’t really get into the whole broadcasting style. I miss forums too much it seems but the world has moved on. People are happy with the privacy-stealing genocide platforms and I’m not going there!
Good luck.
Old school forums were pretty great. I’ve recently been much more heavily on the official Age of Empires forums since getting away from Reddit, where most of the discussion happens. Those forums are nowhere near as active as the various Aoe subreddits, but still a pretty lively place for some good meaningful discussions, which is nice. Definitely not as good as back when any subject would have fan- (as opposed to company-)run forums to choose from, but not too bad.
But yeah I’m with you on the broadcasty nature of Twitter & hence Mastodon. I use Mastodon occasionally, but find it rather awkward to interact with compared to the topic-based communities on Lemmy.