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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I bought some knitting pattern books for baby clothes. Sent them to a local pharmacy for pickup to prevent thieving, I hope l can collect with no dramas. I’m not a kid person but I figure it would be easier to finish small fast projects. Places like St Kilda mums would always take them. ~~Melbcat may even finally run out of luck and wear them~~

Crocheting something to donate and thinking of Lemon.

I probably made the right choice migrating given Spez’s stance on emulating the Muskrat and the developments there but I kind of thought I’d split my time equally between sites… until a rivalry emerged and the old place changed.

I miss Lemon. Stompsie. Epicpillowcase. Smeg. I really like this sane low drama corner of the internet but there are so many people I wish had come with us.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm only a few days off it for lentish. Haven't seen Stompsie about for a while. Epic still has a loser anti fan club of down voters. Lemon is moving house again but has quietened down quite a bit, I hope that's a sign she's recovering from the burnout.

My gripe is that they started playing with posts, like if I sorted by new it wasn't actually in order of newest post. Or sometimes it would appear that popular posts would be completely hidden from me for the first 24 hours. I'd check in the morning and see a day old post with a few hundred comments that just wasn't there when I went to bed.

I reckon with the IPO, a bunch of bad actors bought in and have been subtly playing at manipulating the feeds. Given what happened to digg, I reckon they're trying minor tweaks here and there, but it leaves the user base as the proverbial frog in the boiling pot scenario. Part advertising, part billionaire mindthink.

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Epic still has a loser anti fan club of down voters

What happened there?

[–] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

I think there's a few people that can't stand someone being so firm in what they say.

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Epic is self-aware, intelligent and assertive. This apparently triggers some people to try to crush them.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

They hate ‘em cos they ain’t ’em

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No idea. They're becoming one of my most up voted users because of it though. When I see reasonable advice at -3 imma chuck a doot on it.

They even had someone try and impersonate them here in the early days.

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

I miss continental-drift , Lemon, Jaybb3rw0cky and omgaporksword.