In an ASMR voice:

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Yeah, I think that’s definitely one of the roadblocks Lemmy is facing at the moment. Even though I deleted my Reddit account after the API nonsense, I’m absolutely still appending every DDG or Startpage search with “reddit.” Especially with the flood of AI-generated garbage filling search results, it’s the easiest way to get quick answers from (probably) real people.

However, that also relates to Reddit’s other advantage, in that it actually has a decade and a half of content to be indexed in the first place. The magic of Reddit is that every question has been asked in every way at least 5 times over, Lemmy just doesn’t have that history yet.

Craigslist in my area is at least 90% spam, FB Marketplace is also not super active. OfferUp is pretty popular though.

:3 is the cat face, 4 is the wizard hat with the tip folded over, 8 is the tits

I had to stare at this for a good 30 seconds before it clicked.

Now I will never be able to unassociate this information from 4:38 again.

Yep. To expand on this if people still want to use social media, here’s what helped me. The constant doom scrolling is unhealthy and unhelpful.

1. Block or mute news/doomsday communities/people on social media. Link aggregators and algorithm-driven social media just sucks for news across the board. Use Lemmy (or Reddit, etc) for memes, interesting discussions, cool pictures, whatever, but not news.

2. Collect a list of news sources you trust and add them to an RSS reader. Ideally in a separate folder from other feeds so you can easily filter them out when you aren’t interested in world news. You only get one “post” per article, rather than seeing the same “everything sucks now” article reposted to 20 different communities, and it’s buried in good ol’ boring news. Everything is less exciting in this format, it’s great.

That Bad Omens album is so good. I really need to listen to more Sleep Token too.

There are so many, if I had to limit myself to just a few highlights though:

Starset - Horizons

The Glitch Mob - Revisions

Skrillex - Quest for Fire

Northlane - Obsidian, Alien

Noisia - Closer

Erra - Erra

Polaris - Fatalism, The Death of Me

The Chemical Brothers - For that beautiful feeling

Justin Hawkes - Existential

Poppy - I Disagree

Porter Robinson - Nurture

Muzz - The Promised Land

HEALTH - Rat Wars

There’s just so much good music out there, especially recently.

The Beginner’s Guide is excellent, it’s always surprised me how little I see it talked about.

I’ve been playing Spiritfarer and Forza Horizon 4 on mine as of late.

Hell yeah, Need for Speed has always had great soundtracks, Carbon is definitely a highlight.

Doom 2016, Mirror’s Edge, Metal Gear Rising, Nier Automata, ah so many options… probably a bit of recency bias, but I think I’ll say Neon White.

When it comes to licensed soundtracks, DiRT 2’s soundtrack is perfection.

I hate Ubisoft but I’m also desperate for arcade racers, I’m feeling really conflicted about The Crew Motorfest, lol