I figured this was some sort of show for more money, like a construction contractor rounding up the crew and showing up at the boss' house at 3am because they aren't paying enough and pissed everyone off.

I've noticed an increase in lemmy usage myself, this used to be a check every few days or so, but with the recent influx of users there's more things to interact with now.

Yea no kidding, I saw that struggle session about toilet paper v bidet and noped out for a few days. There's being terminally online then that...Has its own term.

I've supplemented my Google search with Yandex/Baidu and Bing for some time depending on what I'm looking for. Sometimes regardless of phrasing it'll just pop up say AI-generated ads which grates on my nerves and doesn't answer my question.

Video games, slept (I lucid dream, so I always look forward to sleeping), day dreamed, drew, read books, wrote. I didn't really have access to internet since I lived really rural.