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I use Lemmy for discussion and reading the thoughts of others, like I used to do with Reddit.
I am old enough that I can't still use Facebook to check the lives of much of my friends and family. Discord is where I can chat with many of my younger friends.
YouTube gives me short video content for entertainment, and TikTok does the same for more serious topics.
I deep dive Wikipedia so regularly that my wife rightly insists we give at least $20 every time they ask for money.
Lemmy, YouTube watching ethoslab and hermits.
Isn’t Lemmy more like a social discussion app?
I use it like that, and I use Mastodon and WordPress as well for posting and blogging.
They’re much better communities than the more mainstream ones that I’ve tried personally.
Thankfully, I have never used TikTok.
I like supporting the Fediverse more ever since I discovered it and I’ve used it more ever since.
Currently spending a lot of time on Lemmy. Best wholesome time for me online is Pixelfed tho - it's relaxing to just sit and look at beautiful art people have made. Especially with some nice music in the background from something like @[email protected] (comfy channel). In fact, having a beer and a joint to go with it makes for a really nice time too. Overall though I'm starting to feel a bit like I've 'done' the internet and trying to get real pleasure from it is clutching at straws.
Honestly I have more IRL hobbies now.
Before the reddit api, I used to read around 24-28 books a year depending on length (Sanderson's tomes will always change that number because it's like reading 2 or 3 regular books)
Last year I hit 35. I didn't really read books over 1000 pages much last year but I definitely know I'm reaching for a book when I would normally doomscroll reddit.
I still end up on Quora too much. It was a great place to learn until about 2018 when the investors really started making decisions, taking Quora away from the mission towards ad revenue at any cost to the community. The enshittification hasn't damaged it to the level of Yahoo Answers yet, but there's nothing to stop the slide.
My ability to shape my feed took the biggest big hit when they dumped the topic ontology 2023 and went with bots all the way. You used to able to follow extremely specific topics and tag questions with them so that your feed was all gold. No more - my feed is full of "viral" now.
Yahoo answers was a lot of fun when it was newer!
I've found that Mastodon (for those who don't know what it is, think of it as sort of distributed open source Twitter) has been great for me. There are lots and lots of instances, and you'll probably be able to find one that suits your interests. I'm very much into tabletop roleplaying games, and there were already several instances for that kind of thing, but I still started my own. It's been a lot of fun.
I visit forums that are associated with my hobbies, like satellite forums, tech forum etc. I also listen music, and post NSFW content(when I can) in other platforms(not in Reddit).
Hobbies are the only thing that keep me on the internet, apart from news and memes.
Satellite forums sounds like a very specific hobby, but I can't quite tell which one:
What are people into these days?
TV satellite of course! Watching tv over the internet(IPTV, OTT) sounds good, but satellite tv is far better IMO(so far, wont last long). Anything related to new satellites, transponders, epg, FTA(free to air) channels and scrambled channels(when they are open), also there are linux boxes like octagon and vu +, where the users create images and addons. I don't know for USA, but in EU with a big dish you can get lots of things.
This week at 13.0E, they added some Bulgarian channels, but the signal was low?, people started wondering why they added them, since it already in another sat. Probably tests.
Ah second category it is. Well met!
As a category one nerd with a susceptibility to new kinds of gadget-related hobbies I'm not sure SAT TV is something I should be getting into. Sounds like an absolute blast to tinker with all kinds of setups though.
Do you just buy a dish and a receiver en get going? Or is there more to it?
You just don't buy any dish, you have think what you want to watch/receive, then pick the right size dish, and then you have to pick a receiver. Not me, but many users have more than two boxes for many reasons.
Once you have these, then you have to choose if you gonna have a motorized dish or stable with more than 1 LNB's. Motorized dish is good because you only need 2-3 cables, but there is a delay when you switch satellite, seconds or minute until it turns to the right position. While stable has more job and cables to have, while switching satellites/channel is instant. wave frontier is considered the best dish, as it can see/get lots of sats with its size the way it is(needs a lot of lnbs and cable!).
Some people switch receivers every time a new one is out(not many the last years).
FTA is good, but people still trying to crack scrambled channels.
Recently mainly reading Light novels and Playing coop games with friends.
Any LN you recommend?
I started reading just about 3 months ago, but my most favorite is So I'm a Spider, So What?.
Kbin, online shopping and streaming music or video. The time surfing the world wide web for me is over. Most websites I used to visit have anti woke folk and other asocials now. It's depressing...
I moved to a city where it's always warm, and sunny a lot so I'm outside a lot more now, just walking around or sun bathing. I'm also going to the gym regularly for once in my life haha
Most of the time I spend on my computer isn't browsing the web, but doing other stuff like modding Skyrim, playing other games, etc..
I like to play games and watch youtube in the background
On game shop websites looking for some sweet deals. But I'm a cheap bastard, so I'm only just looking.
Right now I'm struggling with buying Divinity Original Sin at 8€, at an 80% discount from 40€, because I think it's expensive.
Edit: Interestingly, had it been 80% of 30€, which is 6€, I would've bought it without hesitation.
I spend a lot of time on Lemmy, sorted by Top>Day or whatever, which seems to provide mostly fresh stuff every morning. I'm on Telegram being an attention whore in my local art community/fandom/convention planning spaces. I browse art on websites, and Google like a madman in relation to my broken project car that I'm trying to restore. I am big into Outer Wilds, and was spending a lot of time on that up until recently. YouTube for offroad recovery videos (Trail Mater and Matt's Offroad Recovery), which is silly because I don't like offloading. It is fun to see the physics/mechanical aspect of how big truck recoveries work
I like to work with artists from Europe, so sometimes I spend inordinate amounts of time trying to track people down on Russian Google/Facebook (Yandex/VK) haha
Can you recommend some good art sites? I've been really enjoying Pixelfed.
I recently discovered a few kind of odd websites where they've uploaded quite an assortment of pictures and videos of different people having sex in all kinds of different arrangements and scenarios, some of which you'd just hardly believe! As silly as it sounds, I find most of them very sexually arousing to view and I like to spend a lot of my time masturbating myself to them. It makes the work day just fly by for me these last few months.
I await death, that's what I do
This is so true. I try to explain this to my wife and she doesn’t understand.
If I’m on my phone I’m either:
I hate social media. I’ve hated Reddit since API. Lemmy is great but I’ll go days sometimes with the same home page. So I basically cycle through the same 3 sites endlessly. I got a Steam Deck to try and help with this, but when I hop on it my wife thinks I’m “playing video games so should be working on something.” I’ve tried to explain that using a Steam Deck is the equivalent of her scrolling social media, but alas.
So yeah. Basically nothing to do these days. I think the most frustrating part to me is how most content seems to be geared towards making me angry. I never remember it being like that.
I've been doing more stuff offline these days. I've been making music that about 10% of people actually like, which is a pretty decent ratio, I think ( https://songwhip.com/thethreeleonards ). between music and board-gaming and TV the hours fill up.
I've been on The Internet since 1995. I, too, used to enjoy this. There is enjoyment to be found, but most of that is in finding people I can sincerely connect with, which is difficult. Treating The Internet like it's the Mirror Of Erised is not the way to happiness.
I read the news once a day from the BBC equivalance of my country. I check the DayZ and Combat Footage subreddits few times a day. Other than that I'm either on YouTube, Lemmy or watching porn. That's literally covers over 99% of what I do online.
I spend a lot of time with YouTube running while I work. For reading the news I have RSS feeds that I've accumulated from sites that I like. I spend a lot of time on Lemmy and Mastodon.
I don't use search as much anymore, cause often when I'm searching for a solution my results are more accurate using Chat GPT (and more and more local LLMs).
The internet is changing and that's okay.
Boune between here Twitter and Facebook ik ik Thats only if I don't have access to my computer then i tend to watch yt and shows or game
Also do a lot of reading
I bounce around from here to YouTube to checking my email to playing with my collection of spreadsheets.
