Yes. Like others have said, the content hasn’t quite caught up in volume or diversity.

But I think another factor is that when I fire up Lemmy, it feels like r/all in that I’m getting everything. There seem to be quite a number of meme-themed subreddits communities that dominate my All feed. Now that I think about it, I should probably make the effort to block those; I’ve made that effort on kbin.

In a way, I think it might be nice to have something equivalent to r/popular, fwiw.

Minor nit: “community” (“magazine” on kbin) doesn’t have the same ‘zing’ as “subreddit”. We need something like “sublemmy” or “sublem”.

Is this where you come for an argument?

My man!

The epittamy of fun, you might say

I tried Joplin for a little while, after having tried others. Found myself going back to VSC with Markdown preview.

But once I tried Obsidian? Aww yiss.

The first I’d heard of Obsidian was at the same time I heard about the Zettelkasten method. Which was thanks to having stumbled across this video: The FUN and EFFICIENT note-taking system I use in my PhD

It’s been a while since I watched it, so my apologies for not being able to give a TLDW summary.

Since adopting it for myself, I’ve found out that an old semi-retired dev friend, as well as a younger dev that actively contributes to at least 2 projects on GitHub (both popular) are keen users of Obsidian.

The best analogy I’ve found so far is “it’s like having an email address; having a different server after the @ is not an impediment to your participation. Just know that you can only login to the server where your account is set up.”

Sir Lancelot and Brother Maynard enter the scene

I’ve been using Signal for what seems like years now.

I’ve got 4 contacts (5 if you include a martial arts school I no longer attend), and only char with 2 of them regularly: my brother and sister.

I’ve downloaded and installed Briar, Session, and Simplex, and keep meaning to test them out with the help of my wife ('s phone) to see what they’re like.

It’s so bizarre, isn’t it? Having grown up exposed to American media (news broadcasts spilling over the border from Buffalo, as an example), I didn’t expect there to be such a difference. Beyond a couple of linguistic things, eg, “zee” vs “zed”, I mean. I’ve learned that it’s best to keep some thoughts to myself, things that would have been fine to say in Canada.

My best friend here is a big gun buff. I won’t call him a fanatic, as he is extremely disciplined about it, including having been a certified instructor. His breath/depth of understanding the gun laws here is pretty wild. He’s invited me to go with him to the shooting range 2-3 times over the years. He’s shared a few stories, I’ll say it that way.

An old HS bud of mine ended up in Florida. His business is focused on the sale, install, maintenance, etc of software solutions for dental offices. His family was one of what I suppose I could call the “early arrivals” in the Toronto area, originally from Southeast Asia. He adopted an English first name after arriving in Florida, for obvious reasons :/

My sister’s bestie (also originally from Toronto) apparently moved to Florida. I’ll spare you the details; it wasn’t because of a love interest, it was because she related so hard with the MAGA culture. I think my sis is still in disbelief that someone she knew so well for decades made such a dramatic shift into the deep end. And no, I have no idea what visa she’s on, if any. It sounded like she just packed up and drove/flew down.

Also, am I the only one that gets irritated when someone says “Canadia”?

I do have fond memories of my one trip to Florida many years ago. An old friend’s parents owned a condo there; he invited me to stay with them one time back in our university years. So I wrapped up my finals, flew down and stayed for a week.

There’s no shortage of good BBQ, Mexican, Tex-Mex, Salvadoran food here. Japanese and Greek restaurants exist, but are less common. And pizza places aren’t nearly as common as back home.

I don’t miss the unbroken months of snow/salt/sand/slush. Although it would be nice to not have to deal with weeks of stifling heat/humidity. Something a little more balanced would be nice, lol. I decided early on that it’s better to pay someone to cut my lawn than to do it myself.

Before utterly crushing him

Obligatory:

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.” - Conan the Barbarian

Or perhaps:

“Crush your enemies! Grind their bones into dirt! Make them regret they were ever born!” - Abraham H. Parnassus

depending on whether you have a pesky H. R. Pickens in your life, or not.

See also BBC live updates https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-66006142

“The call is coming from inside the house”

Heh. I’ll use that term (and various others), but usually with my tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Yeah, buddy buddy.

I feel like this is the most Canadian thing I’ve read in decades. And believe me, it’s appreciated 😊

Canadian born and raised, but I haven’t lived there for a couple decades now.

Canadian in Texas. Software testing engineer, although I seem to have my hand in DevOps related stuff a lot for continuous improvements to tools. Fully remote.