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Boost. I used Boost for Reddit, so this app for Lemmy feels very familiar.

I like how few taps it takes to switch accounts. I like how I can set my default feed and sort and it sticks where some other lemmy apps I tried frequently reset to a trending feed, gross.

I like the feature that allows me to apply a custom tag to users that only I can see. I use it to keep an eye on potential trolls. If I have a person tagged as "MAGA troll", I know not to engage with them but to grab the popcorn and enjoy the ride.

Zero. I don't have a browser open, just a phone app.

Start thinking about those around me having the most bizarre sex I can think of. If they are going to invade my privacy, I'm going to make them regret it.

I despise jokes about how much a person hates the opposite gender and their spouse specifically.

It's not a good self-deprecating joke, it's just sad. Get a divorce or break up already. You don't have to be trapped in a miserable relationship. And if you hate the opposite gender so much, consider whether you might be queer.

I don't care to have anything on my wrist. But I want to start tracking steps, especially over winter, to prompt myself into enough daily activity. So I'm going to try a ~$50 fitness tracker on my wrist and see how that goes. If I can get past the annoyance at having something on my wrist, I may shop around for a full smartwatch, or more likely wait for the next gen or two. I am deeply unimpressed with the size and battery life of the flagship smartwatches right now.

to see unity and cohesion [in] the Lemmy-verse

Pass. It's a a feature, not a bug.

Instead of one community becoming completely dominant on a topic, there's another one close on its heels should anything happen to the first.

And if I subscribe to both, who cares which a particular post comes from? Just scroll down the feed, read a post if it looks interesting, ignore if it doesn't. Which community it originates from doesn't matter.

I wonder if the people who push for one community per topic across all the Fediverse are just extreme tidiness types who get a kick out of seeing everything in orderly little boxes. Trying to Marie Kondo a decentralized internet forum, that way lies madness.

"Blackened"? Like how it's served in a good number of restaurants?

They already do have AI therapy assistants. CBT type therapy is particularly easy to turn into an app. There are half a dozen in the Google Play store now. They're a nice reminder at times, but no substitute for human conversation.

Once we do have AIs capable of conversation indistinguishable from real human, then therapy is not the only job that will be disrupted. Therapy will be no more or less safe a career path than so many other things.

Second, humans will still need to program, train, and monitor the therapy AIs. The obvious candidates to fill the role at first are experienced therapists with a bit of tech savvy. Until they optimize to the point where the job can be done by warm bodies paid minimum wage, probably "contractors" so liability can be compartmentalized. Then we're back to the point above where everyone in any career is fucked anyway, might as well do what you're good at and what you enjoy for a decade or two.

1. You want them to see your work

2. You want them to be proud of you for that work

3. You don't want them to know it was you who wrote the work

Do I have that right?

1. is in your control. You can share your work with them.

2. this is not in your control. It is totally normal to want your family to be proud of you. Unfortunately, we can't guarantee someone else's emotions and responses.

3. also in your control, but conflicts with 2 and makes 1 more difficult

I hope this "shadow work" involves some therapeutic resources. You have some strong and conflicting thoughts and emotions going in here.

Find ways to rely less on motivation. Shift to discipline and habits or patterns.

I don't feel like going to the gym 9 times out of 10. I go because it's on my calendar and it's what I do Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

I don't want to practice the language I'm learning most days. I do it because I have phone reminders to practice at the same time every day right after breakfast.

If I get to the point of dreading the thing, I reevaluate why I'm doing it to begin with and whether I really want to continue. I've worked really hard on being able to drop things that don't "spark joy", to borrow from Kondo, without feeling guilty for quitting.

Getting an instapot was the difference maker. It made it a setup-and-walkaway operation. It's also very easy to sanitize first, running a quick boil cycle with just water

And then I figured out less starter results in a thicker yogurt on the "Greek" end. It was counterintuitive, at first; I thought "more starter" = stronger end result = "Greek", but that was not the case.

6-8 hours gives me a milder yogurt, while 8-10 hours gives me a tarter yogurt that I like for smoothies.

Thanks. That's what I've been finding as well. Unfortunate, such a wealth of community-built knowledge and they had to go and ruin reddit.

I had a nightmare last night that Wikipedia started to enshittify. I woke up and donated $. I desperately don't want them to follow down the drain chasing reddit and YT.