What's the point of that? Does it improve your experience using the website at all? If anything, I'd prefer the opposite: a sizable number of people that are available for me to follow and post things relevant to my interests.
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My remote call-center job. It takes it out of me like no other job has. Every single second is measured and tracked and "optimized". Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful to have the job. It pays better than anything else I'd be qualified for (probably) at 18.50 an hour, and I'm immunocompromised, so I need remote work. More than that, I'm genuinely good at it. But I can't help but feel that it's not for me forever, and I don't know how to transition out of it.
(It's iOS and macOS tech support)
Do you understand the difference between owning a forum and running it? u/spez isn't moderating /r/bioware. This isn't about who should own these forums, but how they should be run.
Simple: if what you want is to try to get eyeballs on your art, you're not going to post it on a website that restricts its visibility. I'm never going to see that much content beyond my own instance. I need to follow the artists individually to see their art, or they need to be somehow connected to someone on my instance.
That's the ultimate non-starter.
Twitter doesn't have this problem, and Twitter still works (mostly). It's still the only reliable source for commissions.
No way. Forums should never be run by the people the forum is discussing, for the same reason that newspapers should never be government-owned.
It depends on the mechanisms that govern atomic arrangements, doesn't it? If we have infinite time, and infinite space, and if it was an (essentially) random process, then sure. On a long enough timescale, the probability of that arrangment approaches 1. But I don't think those are the circumstances that we're dealing with.
There are two main strategies:
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Play something fast-paced and frenetic. Your Overcookeds, Apex Legends's, or Fall Guys'. Brings out the banter and the comaraderie. You can't do much but focus on working together to win the day.
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Go slow-paced and strategy-heavy. Think Minecraft, Valheim (or whatever survival-craft-'em-up you like) or just plain poker. More conversation, cuz it's more laid-back.
Whenever I've reconnected with somebody, it's been through the first strategy initially.
Night in the Woods. It's hits you in places you never knew were sensitive until you're acutely aware of each and every exposed nerve.
Be active in your community, whether that be online or off. People do notice you, even if you're not sociable.
Some excellent games mentioned so far, so I'm gonna go with "Night in the Woods". It's this crystal-clear reflection on what it's like to grow up now, what it's like to live in America--good and bad. It's gut-wrenching and funny and beautiful.
Twitter and Reddit got so awful I needed to leave. Lemmy is fantastic and underpopulated, but Mastodon isn't what I would want. I can search for hastags, but there's no other way to search beyond the instance I'm in. That's not what I want. I want a space that I can curate AND I want a local community. I got the latter, but the former...not so much.
So in a sense, I'm still a skeptic. But what else is there?
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Usually a disposable MMO or idle game. I like the feeling of progression.