Every. Time.
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Tbf, this is specifically the yoyo subreddit. I mean, lots of others two, but I was specifically referencing the thrower sub
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This week I managed a Berserk and JoJo reference in memes. Itās been a good week.
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Iāve never been able to get behind Animeā¦ one moment, the story is great! Itās compelling and the characters are well written, and then BLAM! Everybodyās nakedā¦ like what??
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That anime has a different name to it, lol
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I was exaggerating, but yes, youāre right.
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Thatās the best part!
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Nah that whole place is justā¦ not great.
I was a Reddit evangelical, told everyone how great it was, as the years went by I started to realize how it was bringing me down and taking over my free time, and filling my head with garbage.
Then I read the stupidest take I ever saw and literally said āwhat the hell am I doing here?ā Closed and uninstalled all the Reddit apps I had, and never went back.
Best choice since quitting smoking.
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Watch any movie by Studio Ghibli (Except Earthsea. It just stinks) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is particularly excellent. No fan-service in any of their stuff.
Althoughā¦skip Pom Poko if you donāt want to see comical use of magical raccoon nutsacks.
Other great shows:
Violet Evergarden
Kotoro Lives Alone
Yuri on Ice
Frieren: Beyond Journeyās End
Erased
Trigun (original or new)
Just about anything Gundam (if you like giant robots)
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Perhaps, one day, Iāll see the light, however, I used to (pre-API-issue)/still do use it as a way to discuss hobbies or learn how to do things. Not going to lie, its pretty easy to forget that itās an echo chamber, but if you use it right and keep the right mindset, it can be a pretty useful tool.
All said, I praise your ability to leave Reddit. I almost did it after the blackoutās failed, however, I (not me, personally, but my wife) was going through a tough time, with a lot of downtime without access to anything or a place to throw and eventually, I just didnāt have anything to do. So, old habits sunk back in. In fairness, I did try some alternatives during that blackout/post-blackout, but they were either worse (Twitter/Instagram) or didnāt quite hit right (Squabblr), or just plain didnāt work for what I was looking for (Tumblr on iOS)
I am, however, curious to know what the take was that broke the camels back. Feel free to DM me if itāsā¦ Unsavory for the general YYE population
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Itās been years, I donāt remember what exactly it was, but it must have been brain-numbing lol.
Likely something to do with current events of the time or something.
I came to love forums again because of it tho, like the OPForums for synth stuff, TJ forums for my jeep, watch crunch for watches, and here for yo-yos and remembering there are still really cool people all around us.
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Fair enough; couldnāt hurt to ask. And Iām 
sure it had something to do with current events; of that, there was no doubt.
Iām in the old enough to know how to use the internet but young enough to not really have gotten into forums bracket. I like Reddit because thereās a shared language on there and everything is all in one place. Wanna see homelab stuff and then some random 40k lore then learn what not to do when doing electrical stuff at home? Reddit. Not a fan of having to go through 20 different forums a day just to keep up. I make an exception for YYE because it is the only one.
In fairness to me, I did try other forums related to hobbies of mine, but they all seem just as bad/snobbish as Reddit, but at least with Reddit, thereās a degree of anonymity. On specific forums, everybody tends to know everybody (due to the olā mass lurkers vs few posters issue; though. not necessarily specific to any niche forum(s))
I am, however, trying a self-hosted RSS feed, but again Old enough to internet; young enough to never have gotten into/learned RSS in its heyday bracket (Doesnāt mean Iām not trying to catch up though)
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That said, if anyone can recommend a good forum-specific alternative for homelab, selfhosting, residential networking, electrician, home automation, gaming lore (TES,40k,Halo), and IT/computers, that would cover like 80% of my reddit replacement needs
Yeah, the whole API debacle along with the adminsā disrespect for their mods and users that make the communities great (and potentially profitable) did it for me. The fact they let LLMs scrape wasnāt great either. I really hope the fediverse takes off, particularly with some free-speech instances.
I loved it when I was younger, but now much of it is too weird and/or innapropriate for me. I still love One Piece and Spy x Family, though. Liking less entertainment is better though, my friend.
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Yeah, hard agree. I donāt use it nearly as much as I used to, but I still do use it because no direct alternative exists yet. Tbh, we should have seen the writing on the wall when they bought Alien Blue (absolutely and objectively a superior iOS client) and then pretty much immediately scuttled it. In fairness though, Reddit isnāt what it used to be. People definitely left en masse and what little is left is pretty much just bots and niche hobbies/fandoms (and yāknowā¦ Other stuff).
I still enjoy using Reddit, but the iOS Client was/is/always-will-be absolute ā ā ā ā . Iām mostly using reddit in general either at work, on the toilet, or because itās a top link on google.
Tbh, Iām not sold on the fediverse. From what I could tell, it was pretty much the same as reddit, in fact, itās just as bad as reddit when I joined many, many years ago. Either you knew how to use it, or you were a, well, weāre not allowed to use that word anymore. Basically, git gud or gtfo. And thatās what the fediverse feels like now. Just a bunch of individual nodes of people who feel suprior to you because they know how to use the fediverse and you donāt.
Additionally, maybe Iām misunderstanding, but basically, it just feels like niche forums on the internet, but with extra steps. Or, if you will, they feel like the internet did back in 1996, before google kicked off. You just have to āknowā where to go. But then again āDead Internet Theoryā so idk
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She tied the string to the wrong fingerā¦ and look at that tilt! Who taught her how to throw a sleeper?
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No no no, sheās still learning. The artist didnāt get to the yoyo until after the sleeper lost all itās power
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