Fair enough, but endless feeds and short form videos are also widely regarded as dangerous to mental wellbeing, so I agree with them on that point.

But I’m more interested in getting people away from the adtech platforms, so also happy to see decentralised alternatives pop up.

The great thing about decentralised social media is I’ll always have my anti dark pattern folks in one corner or other.

Ok let’s hear your take

I’m on 3 active forums and 2 lemmies and 2 mastos and I just leave myself logged in. It’s nothing like that. Somehow that’s still a better user experience than discord

Is the husk looking thing under it just for presentation?

I loved this cheeky comeback.

Why not reinvent the wheel? I’ve already learned a great deal in just starting this project, and I’m excited to learn a great deal more.

Your energy is infectious! I’ll be eagerly following this project

I don’t think it’s really changed in that time. I just leave and receive little back and forth comments on what mutual follows and me are reading, thinking about reading. It’s got like a more pen pal cadence in that way.

Anyway, I like that. I come to lemmy or masto for the faster, general back and forths

I can see it. Didn’t really think about it since I already have a bottomless TBR pile based on personal recommendations, or curiosity, than I can possibly ever read.

Asking on Mastodon with the #books tag would probably yield some good results. Lots of chatty folks follow that tag :)

Yeah, good way to track books without having to be part of Amazon’s pipeline.

Though tbh I track most of my book slash other media impressions in a paper notebook. I just like how it feels.

Yo book wyrm is so chill, I love it. I maybe check it once a week, but always enjoy it.

Yeah the shape is what causes the confusion maybe. I remember they were but nearly as good back in the day, but now you’ve got all kinds of interesting herbs and spices, because people have figured out that it doesn’t need to taste like meat to be good.

The shape is high tier, though. Perfect for dressing with all kinds of kooky things that would not fit in a sandwich

vegan hot dog trying to imitate a regular one will be bad

But it’s not bad. It’s good. It’s like really good.

It’s good enough to take a picture of and share online. It’s good enough to see online and make your mouth water. It’s good enough that I plan my meals to get some, and I’m looking forward to eating two of my own on Monday (pictured):

If you just don’t like it, that’s fine. That’s your taste, and I’m not going to try and tell you that your taste is wrong because that’s totally subjective.

I don’t like tempeh, but I’m not going to go around saying tempeh sucks and you should stop enjoying it, because that’s just debating a matter of taste.

Stop trying to mimic meat products

I don’t hate them, but I’ve been saying this for years; maybe because I grew up mostly vegetarian, so I find that there are so many interesting flavours other than meat. Like one local pub here had this great lentil based burger that they stopped making (in-house I’ll add) as soon as Impossible meat came bursting on to the stage.

Now, my partner who was raised eating meat meals all the time loves these fake meats (I like them fine, I mean they are good, compared to what was around 90s definitely!). And I’ve been to the pub with a gaggle of friends and most of the people will get the impossible burger now, which was absolutely not the case before.

So as a gateway for meat eaters to try skipping like one meal of meat and realising they’re fine, I’d say they’re a smashing success.

I haven’t bought it in a while, but is the Hel mann’s olive oil mayo–nvm, I looked it up and they actually have a dedicated vegan mayo line, so that’s cool.

I always make two hotdogs: one with mustard pepper and chopped onions 😌, another with ketchup and fun things 😝, just so my inner child gets something to enjoy.

What I like about the fedi is I don’t care if it’s a “success” in the same sense that the closed social media sites have to be. It’s not like this project has quarterly profit targets to hit or else it’ll have to enshittify or else the investors pull out and we’re all screwed because there’s no more app.fediverse.com monolith or whatever.

Nah it’s just us doing our thing and enjoying ourselves. The activity around here already reached a critical mass a while ago, to the point that there’s more content than I could hope to enjoy, so anything from here is vegan gravy.

Look at the baby over here. I remember 33… Actually not really.

There’s no such thing as perfect software.

This was a huge learning in my journey. Realising that every technical decision is a matter of tradeoffs - that there is no perfect pattern/framework/library/implementation/architecture/whatever.

Once the obviously bad choices have been eliminated.

Heck yeah I’m ready

That just sounds like forums. Sounds kind of nice

I go back and forth depending on my mood but yeah, I find lemmy a bit smoother