PascalPistachios @ PascalPistachios @beehaw.org

Currently in love with all things fibre!

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Eh, I wouldn't go that far, personally. There's a lot more to building a community than just the name of it, yknow? I'm going to start work on building a hand spinning and fibre art community, and I don't need to really post outside of DIY/Creative to do so.

It's more like building the people before the home. I don't mind it personally. It's comfy here.

Man, you should call these community announcements beehaw yeehaws. I think that'd be neat and funny.

A beanie for this one! I've been bullied (I don't really mind) into 3 seperate projects for my coworkers. Two beanies and a scarf for the eternally freezing executive chef. And I'll try making a write up!! The depth you can go into with just drafting ALONE is fantastically interesting. And I don't feel as bad spending $20 on fibre when I know it'd cost twice as much as yarn, hehe.

But seriously, this week I'll work on a write up before I go on an endless rant. See if I can't bring some wooly madness with me, heh. Look forward to some more experimental yarns from me! 🤗

I think the other hand is that beehaw itself is more like a general "home" server. There will be instances with more niche interests that you can subscribe and interact with. And beehaw seems to be more about building a community in the broader sense. But idk, I'm not the big yeehaw of beehaw.

What? You don't hear a one to one recreation of cracking 5 glowsticks in your hand when you jerk off?

Ha! Tell me about it. I got into spinning and I can hardly stop myself. I'm looking down the barrel of dying my own wool now with local trees and 3d printing myself a rigid heddle loom. Fibre arts truly desire your entire soul once you get into it.

Oh I'm broke and got a needle, thread, and a complete unwillingness to throw out my pants. Good to know about new singer machines though, I've been thinking about learning how to sew.

I agree with this whole heartedly. I think the issue, remote or at work, comes down to the fact that it isn't the workers making the choice, but their boss. For me, I don't do tech work, so I have to go into work because I'm legitimately doing work with my hands. And I like it that way. I know that if I had to work from home, I would become miserable QUICK. That's just my personality.

But the choice is made from up high, from people who don't give two shits about the workers. As with all things.

I cannot recommend it enough. It's a metroidvania and exploring for all the cool monsters is so much fun. It's cheap and indie too, and gets genuinely tough right near the end. But it tests your ability to team build, rather than to just grind. New monsters will basically be at the level of your current squad, regardless of where you got them.

Exactly my point. The first pokemon games you play generally feel so much more exciting because of the novelty of the world. Exploring the world, finding cool little secrets, it's genuinely fun that first time round.

For all the complaints about Pokemon tutorials, they are a minority of the actual issues. But a good representation of the fact that Pokemon refuses to break "tradition". Think about the world design of Pokemon. Like, genuinely think and compare each of the maps and regions. And they'll honestly start to blend together. Even Alola, which imo had the best designed world, aesthetically, blends in to the rest of the world.

And the issue is, when they DO break the mold. It's fucking fantastic. Area Zero, the Megalopolis from Su/Mo, the Distortion World. All fantastic zones that are relegated to the 11th hour and then barely brought up again.

Once you've explored one Pokemon game, you've probably explored them all. And that's pretty egregious considering the main draw of Pokemon is exploration.

I was only on forums as a little kid myself. Trust me, I'm Very Young, I was just good with computers young. But the notifications, small scale, it gave me a little tickle that I hadn't felt since those silly days of logging onto Pokemon forums as a kid.

I've never been super active on Reddit myself. Hell, I've probably written more comments on here in the past day or two than I did over a few years on Reddit. So I can't accurately describe the culture change to you. I'm sure there's plenty of older folk who would be able to tell you though.

But it's something I haven't felt for a while, and something I had forgotten myself. Where social media is... An active choice? On Reddit, it was easy to be entirely passive. Just scroll and scroll. And really, it wasn't even making me happy. It was just engagement for the sake of being engaged. But if I'm on a smaller forum I love talking with people! Sharing these experiences. Also, yay for having forum tools again!! I missed being able to post pictures in comments.

Honestly yeah, that's a much more accurate and eloquent way of describing how I felt. Thank you.

I suppose it's just... Nice to see actual conversation. If someone is trying to be funny, they're actually trying, not pulling on some dead horse one liner.

I feel like that has meaning. Genuine meaning. It's something I didn't feel with the endless barrage of Reddit.

I look forward to it, genuinely, I do. But... Your inexperience is a bit obvious. Good luck!

Ehhh, I've been around for long enough to kinda be scared off by vague proposals... Having a solid idea of what you want, how you're going to do it, why you want it, and who would be involved is a prerequisite in my eyes. I'm all for community led communities. But without something solid and specific, there's no real reason to trust you.

I really don't mean this as an insult. I can tell that you do have a vision here. But, without details and genuine work. No one else will see your vision. Especially if your vision is built off of collaboration. It sounds backwards, but trust me on this. No one will share the same passion for your projects as you do. You have to find a way to get people on board with YOU and working with you. Otherwise there's no reason they couldn't just go off and do what you're saying, sans you.

Hmm... I might be on board, but reading through this your proposal seems far too vague? I can understand you're not trying to be beehaw. And that you're trying to do your own thing. But can you elaborate on the differences?

Everyone shits on the guy, but hey, he's living the dream of making a billionaire go broke while also destroying one of the hell pits on the internet.

It seems that business has gone the way where, as long as you keep making profit, who cares if you have less customers? It's such a backwards way of thinking when you actually apply it to reality. I wish I could find the article, but I remember there being a discussion about the trust threshold for businesses. Where, a business who constantly pulls moves like this makes more and more money out of fewer customers, until they suddenly pass a threshold of trust, and BAM! It all falls down.

Ofc, I know, it's capitalism. The endless pursuit of profit and the expense of all else. It's just... Exhausting to see it happen everywhere.

I absolutely agree on your point about people wanting to turn lemmy into Reddit. Everyone has some very clear problems with Reddit, so why do we just want to create it again??

And again, some communities are going to have to migrate. And they'll likely hold the same culture they did on Reddit, and just... Writing this, I realise that I sound like an old man who hates people. But I just find huge forums or social media groups with thousands upon thousands of people to be EXHAUSTING. The culture, the social dance of it all.

And I want to escape that from Reddit. The main stream of Reddit felt like a secondary rat race to my actual life. No substance, just astroturfing and attention traps. I don't want another Reddit, I don't want another time sink for the toilet. I want genuine discussions and the good hearted fun of old forums...

Haha, sorry, going to continue to yap off until my jaw simply falls off my face.

Honestly, I think this is the point where we have to do our best in making a good community. The application process for beehaw is fantastic. And maybe I'm just mean but I hope to see many more application based communities. Say what you will about gatekeeping. But sometimes asking people to do more than the bare minimum is necessary to making a good community. And sometimes a good community doesn't have to involve everyone that so much as glanced over.

I have a nice big drawing display tablet and I should be able to give it a shot, yeah. Thanks for the suggestion! It's stupid but I would've honestly not thought of that, haha.

Totally agree. Notifications on lemmy genuinely excite me. On Reddit, more than half the time it was an empty comment that added nothing to the conversation. Or admin mail.

Like, even just as I scroll down this thread, everyone is writing full and proper responses. Not just one liners as far as the eye can see. It's refreshing and exciting. How the internet aught to be.