Don't feel bad, to each their own. It's not everybody's thing and I get that.

I was too young to really know Howard Stern so never I don't really know him. It comes in waves for me, sometimes if I'm stressed at work I just want to listen to some stupid jackassery on my way home. Then other times I want to learn more or have a more thoughtful podcast.

Exactly! It's like I didn't realize how much I was itching for the next blue link until it wasn't readily available. It really helped out things in perspective for me.

Yeah, content is lacking. I haven't tried telegram but my fear is that it will be the same issues reddit had for me. Too much content so I just sat there all day sucking from the content teat. The conteat if you will.

Yeah, it feels like having a much smaller community harkens back to earlier internet days. I remember spending hours on the world of warcraft off topic forum back in the day. Always had great conversations and met some awesome interesting people.

Yeah doomscrolling started to be a real problem for me. I am a new(ish) father, so scrolling through /r/all was starting to give me some serious dread every day. I realized if I just scrolled through my subscribed subs and made sure there was nothing political there, my mental health went waaaaay way up. Like night and day difference, I became a much different (and better) person to be around.

Yeah that is always a shame. There are a few communities that I am missing still as well.

I think that's the feeling that I don't miss. It was like with reddit I could always get that fix. There was plenty of blue links left to satiate my dopamine drip. With Lemmy, the content is a lot less so I don't feel the need to just scroll and scroll. I hope on, get my kick, hit the end for that day, then go back to doing stuff IRL.

Yeah, I think that will settle with time. It's fresh on everyone's minds right now. As Lemmy continues it will become more of its own thing.

If avoiding the ant-ageddon is your main goal, pick them and give them away. Free plums sign like others have said? Idk if I'd expect someone to pick them though, I'd pick them and bag them myself.

If it's like what do you DO with a million plums after they're picked, I'm plum out of ideas besides give them away. The jam and wine suggestions sounds interesting. Plum pudding mayhaps?

I'm using Jerboa now and it's pretty good. A few hiccups here and there, but all in all not bad.

I live in rural Pennsylvania, which is a very red area. There are hundreds of people I interact with on a daily basis in my local community that are MAGA supporters, and yet are totally normal individuals who happen to have conversative views, so they joined the cult that matches their ideology.

How are we supposed to heal as a nation if we blanket statement say "MAGAs are idiots"? Are some psychopaths being duped in to trump thumping? Sure. But to lump them all in to this crazies category is dangerous, immature, and is low rung political discussion that plagues Reddit and I think Lemmy should be better than that.

I disagree. A lot of people are getting caught up in the MAGA cult that are just looking for a team that speaks to their ideals (generally more conservative). Calling them dumb by choice and not trying to understand their underlying reasons for subscribing to this particular ideology is really harmful at a societal level.