Yeah it was the diver thing that made me realize he was an egomaniac. A loud egomaniac.

they announced they were going to start paying people for content

I must have missed this. Do you have a link?

Spoken like someone who has never won over a cat. Cats are absolutely capable of affection and have preferred humans, they just don't give it out for cheap.

Vancouver!

You guys underestimate the amount of abuse that people who have nothing else are willing to go through.

Just leaving additional peer pressure here. WE WANT PICS!

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I'm a creator on certain instances and participator/lurker in some others. I'm mostly posting events happening in my city. Discussion is sparse right now but I figure it's better to have sparse conversation than NO conversation.

I initially had the same lament, but since we're early adopters of this tech, it really is on us to build the communities here. If you want to discuss something, just post a thread. Even if no one replies right away, as people start coming they will start engaging with posts that are already there.

Right on man. My last comment on R3dd!t told people the amount of time they spent figuring out how to still use 3rd party apps, they can direct that effort into learning how to participate in the Fediverse. Got a hundred-ish downvotes so that means a hundred people now know Lemmy exists.