Also, thank you for posting and commenting and making such an exciting community thrive!
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
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.
What else am I supposed to do at work?
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.
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.
Code’s compiling, ADD
The best XKCD
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.
I have a bad habit of leaving comments when I want to leave none ever. So comments >0 is too many by my own reckoning. I have the free time because depression. I make these comments because I’ve lost my self control in that respect
I seem to compulsively leave comments as well, I think they help give body to the community.
Its good Lemmy work
That’s a good way to look at it lol, I’m contributing to the Lemmy fluff. Someone will read it and eat 5 seconds of their time, thus contributing to the goal of Lemmy; wasting time
Wating time Learning!
Constant cultural and empathetic expansion!
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.
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.
I quit work when I was 35 and am now 58 (FIRE long before it became a thing and I didn’t even consider grifting off the life choice) . I dont consider myself prolific but I have time to post if I wish.
That is fire. Congrats.
Why grift after you already have what you need after all?
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.
With mobile apps it’s easy to squeeze a 5 minutes there and there, and I like the Lemmy community overall. Its size makes it so there’s more opportunities to provide valuable comments. I’m a software engineer so it’s pretty mentally intensive so I tend to interleave entertainment and work a lot.
I’m in this boat too
Catharsis, tech support，encouragement, Lemmy’s right here.
Post on company time 😉
Thoracic spinal damage is super rare. The thoracic region is the area where your ribs connect. It isn’t like the lumbar spine you likely associate with back problems. It usually requires external sources of traumatic injury to cause problems. Unlike typical back problems, thoracic damage can greatly impact posture; not just in the sense of ‘hold your shoulders back and don’t slouch’ bad posture. This is more like, what you associate with bad posture is somewhat related to fatigue, but you’re likely unaware of how much continuous strength you actually have that underpins your ability to remain upright. These muscles are still engaged even when you are reclining above around a 45° angle, just to a lesser extent, and certainly in use while sitting upright or standing. When the thoracic spinal region is chronically damaged, holding posture above 45° can become like lifting a 1 kg dumbbell in your outstretched arm at shoulder height. I can hold posture and situp or stand, but it hurts from the moment I start. By 30 minutes it is painful enough for me to lose the focus to read and comprehend well. By 1 hour in, I’m unable to think clearly over the background noise of the pain. Taking pain meds and muscle relaxers doesn’t change anything about my condition. It just makes me care less or less self aware. I am here most often because there is a position I can sit in that allows me to fully relax my back while holding a phone. I spend my up time doing other things, I can sit with my computer in bed longer or hold up a novel size book okay. This is a profoundly lonely existence to deal with long term. I’m often hurting too much to really talk anyways. I need the filter of text to piece my thoughts together and feel like I am myself. In a lot of ways I let this place fill a fundamental social need. I don’t expect people to understand. I simply have no access to escape this situation and be myself.
I honestly expected more answers to be like this.
Glad you’re here and glad there’s a position you can find some relief and still get some solid community/social engagement and dumb memes.
I think a lot depends on the degree a person is stuck dealing with issues. If I could ever let go of the pain, I wouldn’t talk about it or want to. For me it is like stupid annoying background music I have to shout over to think or do anything. Thanks though.
