Haha even after that you didn’t check the article? The premise is that the claims that men don’t read fiction are greatly exaggerated!

So you stopped before it got to the premise?

I just read this semi-autobiographical Jo Walton novel called Among Others that was written as a love letter to finding books through other books - you get the title of every book the sci-fi obsessed main character reads over the course of like 1979-1980.

Take the hint Xi, she’s just not into you.

This is why the alien entity in the Expanse was called the Protatomolecule

Nice. All corporate mergers are anti-consumer and anti-worker.

Reddit removed downvotes?

I think the big thing is not having any requirements to join, you just make an account and you’re in. I started out trying to join a different instance and the second I saw a list of questions to answer I noped out and came here.

That doesn’t make any sense. If I’m instantly transported 2 feet to my left I’m still going to be in the same room, not in outer space. Maybe you’re thinking of this issue with time travel?

Meaning you’re on a space station right now?

Lately I’ve just been rewatching the final episode of the previous season before starting a new one. I’m a little lost in that episode but by the end I’m following along, and it’s usually an exciting finale episode that gets me excited to watch the next episode.

I was on Mastodon starting soon after Musk bought twitter, and bluesky few the last few months. Mastodon is a lot more similar to lemmy in terms of being part of the fediverse, while bluesky sort of claims to be going for a federated thing of its own but so far is pretty much just a centralized server like twitter so far. Perhaps because of that, I find bluesky a lot more engaging and more similar to pre-Musk twitter. A lot of the choices the Mastodon creators implemented were deliberately reducing virality and “one big chatroom” feel that I at least liked about twitter. I wasn’t looking for those changes, just a microblogging social network not owned by fascists.

So basically if you want something like lemmy go with Mastodon, if you want something old twitter go with bluesky.

I’ll forever be in mourning that Signal shot themselves in the foot and stopped functioning as an SMS app replacement

Wow it may get rid of those annoying alerts too? Win-win!

It turned out to have no basis in reality - the person telling the story turned out to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US or something like that.

I need something in between this and a Kindle. I don’t want to build my own electronics, I just want to buy them from somewhere without sketchy ulterior motives for how they’ll use their control over my device.

I like it, seems like a good way to get to critical mass on the small subs here. Can’t really offer any help, but good luck and thanks!

Usually one in the morning. Once in a while another one if I get too sweaty or dirty.

Yeah all of these are in theory in this “microblogging” genre of apps.

It creates that “one big chatroom” vibe from old twitter, while Mastodon feels like a bunch of people microblogging next to each other