I have a woodworking project that’s been “in progress” for a long time. It’s small but I experienced a setback early on which killed all motivation. But I went back to it yesterday and moved it forward a bit more!

There’s still no AI solution that can change filters for us smh

I’ve a couple of small projects laying around. I’d like to create something(app, game, whatever) used by other people. That isn’t just what I make at work.

I try to work on them on and off at least somewhat consistently. Doesn’t always work like that though, hah.

I tried it once using a meditation app I don’t remember the name of. It didn’t really do much for me other than temporarily relax me until I got back to work or whatever I was doing. But sometimes I do a basic meditation method when I have trouble falling asleep. The idea behind it is to try and clear your mind and think of nothing. Unfortunately I can’t empty my head completely.

What I do instead is trying to force everything out of my mind best I can and picture a balloon. Focusing on it alone, imagining it inflating when I breath in and deflate when I breath out. Doesn’t work every time but it’s given me the most success. Making me relaxed enough to allow myself to fall asleep easier.

A lot of stuff is up at work. Busy times and stressful days. Hopefully it’ll calm down starting next week.

This Discuss community isn’t specifically to talk about this one Lemmy instance. It’s to talk about anything and everything. For example the fact that Vlemmy unfortunately had to shut down without notice. I hadn’t visited that instance but it always sucks when things suddenly go away.

On Reddit everything I saw usually had thousands of comments already since I never sorted by new. Nothing really to add that would be seen by anyone. Over almost a decade on Reddit I think I posted at most 20-30 times.

Lemmy definitely feels more approachable because of the smaller size of the communities. But then If it becomes massive I’ll probably slow down my activity again because of the same reasons mentioned above.

Reposting what I posted in our Matrix chat server:

Elon is learning why social platforms usually provide reasonably priced APIs. Wonder if Reddit will be hit by the same thing.

I’ve been trying a lot of things to try to get traffic here.

Would you mind sharing some of the things you have tried? Since there now are a couple of settled “main” instances it seems real hard to grow organically as a smaller instance. Is there something we can do to help other than word of mouth or donate?

That’s a great point lol

Didn’t this happen once already in the last year? Maybe I’m thinking of another delivery/postal company.

It’s giving me a good reason to start weaning off reddit. If my computer’s been on it’s always been highly likely that it was open in a browser tab.

Now I just gotta try and remember what I used to do before reddit lol

Makes sense and I hope you’re right! Can’t tell you how many subreddits I saw suffixed by “new” or “2” lol

I’ve had the same thoughts. Just looking at Lemmy’s list of instances to join there are already hundreds of them. Many with duplicate topics. Where is everyone going? Which one will become the main instance for a given topic?

But I guess that’s what happened with subreddits as well(?) I wasn’t there from day one, so I don’t truly know. But there appear to have always existed one main subreddit for a topic, and then dozens of subreddits to cover all the subsections and niche areas of the topic. Looking at it like that it appears that the fractures have always existed. They just all existed under the same parent domain instead of under multiple different ones which is where we’re going now.