Somehow I fell into the routine, motivated by wanting to see communities grow on lemmy, and I've just kept going.
You'd be surprised how quick I am at it now. The actual posting probably only takes 5-10min per day, and then whenever I have time to check my phone, I'll catch up on my inbox.
It's easier when you didn't have a job when you joined and you still don't.
Originally due to illness, but at this point also by choice since a parent is required to be at home in order to help my daughter stay on track with her online (public) school work.
Still got waaaay too much time with nothing to do.
I feel like I'm good friends with The Picard Maneuver, Flying Squid, and Kolanaki, just because they're in all the same threads I am.
I don't even consciously interact with specific people on Lemmy, but sometimes I just happen to be paying attention to the usernames and I do the Leo pointing meme like "Hey, I recognize that guy!"
I just remembered MrBabyMan. Turns out he's still an animation editor for Disney stuff, if anyone is curious. Wonder how he feels about social media in general now.
ngl I blocked them because I got sick of seeing stale memes reposted with vaguely related titles. I thought they were a repost bot but that might be going too far