I’ve just realised that I haven’t viewed a single tiktok video since leaving reddit. So I guess I haven’t missed them. I never posted anything on reddit, I mostly lurked - as a passive consumer of other people’s content. That’s the biggest difference I guess. Here I have several different logins on various servers, and I’ve posted a few times in niche communities. It feels like a mini adventure!
Brilliant. Boost was my favourite app for the other place, it’ll be great to have it back for the fediverse.
That’s really interesting! I once ate yak goulash in Bhutan - it was delicious.
Shackleton’s journey by open lifeboat from Elephant Island to South Georgia was in itself pretty astonishing. Captain Frank Worsley navigated using iirc a couple of pencils and a rubber band, and only caught a few glimpses of the sun to help his calculations. They landed on the wrong side of the island and had to climb a mountain pass to get to the whaling station. At the top of the pass they decided, what the hell, and slid down on their backsides. This didn’t kill them, phew, but it did shred their trousers, so at the bottom they carefully safety-pinned the bits together, “in case there are ladies”.
Yes, there was uproar over a prize-winning GSD at Crufts one year, it looked crippled.
Novelty is key here. Novelty + Titanic + billionaires + hubris equals an unbeatable level of novelty in any news cycle. Tragically, immigrants drowning is no longer novel. Speaking of novel, I highly recommend The Beekeeper of Aleppo for anyone wanting an insight into why people cram onto these little boats and set sail. Warning: it is harrowing. Also, a shoutout to the RNLI, whose volunteers carry on saving lives at sea in the face of criticism. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65893789
I’ve just realised that I haven’t viewed a single tiktok video since leaving reddit. So I guess I haven’t missed them. I never posted anything on reddit, I mostly lurked - as a passive consumer of other people’s content. That’s the biggest difference I guess. Here I have several different logins on various servers, and I’ve posted a few times in niche communities. It feels like a mini adventure!