Pretty sure I’ve had my last friend step down to acquaintance.
Hugs. I prefer animals to people, no bullshit games.
oh no , so many hugs
ooh that one will hurt.
We are here for you.
Thank you, collectively
Ouch, I’m so sorry ❤️
Want to write something nice, but also I know the feeling so will just say hang in there.
Stopping by after a very long absence to introduce you all to Mabel:
I am OBSESSED with her and I am just showing her off to every single person I’ve ever met.
cuuute
😍She is a real cutie!
Hi Mabel!
I love her. 💖
she’s adorable
Oh my goodness, adorable 😍
Awwww.
Hello Melbourneians? Melbourneites? Person from almost the other side of the world here.
How come this community is so active on Lemmy? I haven’t seen any other city pop up on my feed as often as yours. You regularly get more than a hundred comments each day in these discussion threads.
Many of us are Reddit blackout immigrants.
Because we’re actually a cult and everyone’s welcome to join. Even you. Sign up with a picture of a pet. We’re open 24/7.
You can checkout but you can never leave…
We were a pretty active community back on Reddit,. especially during COVID.
Many of us migrated here last year during the Reddit boycott/fuckery.
We share random mundane shit and talk shit with each other.
Most of my posts are me being annoyed with me neighbours mowing their lawn twice a week or watering the same lawn when it’s raining.
Feel free to join us. You don’t have to live here to talk shit 😊
And most of my posts are really long rants about minor, mostly inconsequential shit
Cat photos and the job hunt from me.
I serve breakfast daily, as compensation for the end of donut (zero covid) days
Because ithe internet is made of cats & boobs, and we have cute cats 😝
My cat is indeed cute. My boobs however, not so much.
I have neither of these things. 😞
Poor deprived bubba
We’re just that cool!
Really tho? I’d guess because of the dynamics of Australia, whereas else where people are more spread out we all live largely in 2-5 cities.
Melbourne is over 5 million people and the largest city in Australia. We can all gather and talk about the same place and things.
We also speak English so others internationally can engage more easily with our community.
Oh and both work, but we generally use Melbournians.
It’s often 300+ on a Friday.
We’re coming at you from the future just now because daylight savings time ended overnight.It’s an active community because it’s an active community. Any community with 50+ daily commenters could be as active.
G’day! Melbournian is the most common term for us, although I’d usually drop the o to emphasise its Mel-burn and not mel-born (although it’s usually said Melb’n, but that’s a whole other story!)
My theory on why we’re so active: these daily threads were previously going on the melbourne subreddit for years, so when r/Melbourne went dark for the protests, there was a lot of oragnising to get people here. A few people came, and since everybody in the DT knows each other, they told everyone else and then everybody started moving over here. A few people refused to come, but enough people came, and enough others were forced to come when the sub vanished that we formed our own community.
If you want your mind blown even more - look at the thread from June 15th 2023. Over 600 comments on it! A few of those people went back to Reddit as soon as the subreddit reopened, but enough stayed that it didn’t just become a group of 3 people like a lot of other communities. Our other city communities like [email protected] sometimes have DTs too, but only get 5 or 10 comments, so that’s meant that our DT kind of ends up attracting people from all around australia since we’re so active and such awesome people (lol)
It’s actually a pretty even in terms of comments between us and r/Melbourne. Their thread is currently at 159 comments and ours is at 119 (this thread was actually posted 5 hours early)
Not sure if any of this actually answered your question, but the TL;DR is that these DTs were happening on Reddit for many years and the community split in 2 during the shit reddit pulled last year. Most of the long term active people moved here, although a couple stayed back on reddit.
Sun is streaming in my window onto the couch so I have given up any thought of moving, have made a G&T, pulled out the diary and sitting here planning holidays and just chilling.
I imagine this is how normies (ie people whose brains are not filled with depression etc) get to live all the time. It’s nice. I approve.
🤔
my brain is 95% work , 1% is walking in the park looking at trees and finding banksia pods, 2% is watching movies, 2% skiving here
I might be exaggerating but not much
I bemoan chicken and vegetables, but holy fuck do I feel good today.
Like a different person.
Energetic, focused, motivated.
Crazy shit.
Edit: Noticeable performance increase at the gym as well.
Bird cage cleaned and renovated to Sir’s liking. He appears to approve of pea sprouts.
Clearly a gentleman of refined tastes. A verray Beau Brummel of a bird.
Have made a report about last night’s yard screamer. The more I think about it the more it seems like a SA situation.
It’s so dark 😓
I almost want to turn the heater on for emotional support. But it’s 19 degrees inside so I will refrain. But it looks cold.
It really doesn’t help that I’ve just returned from 10 days in a tropical island resort. It’s like being plunged into winter all at once.
Omg it’s 7pm not 7am
Lol I used to have this am pm shift happening when I did rotating day/night shift. I’d wake up in a darkened room with an analogue clock and no idea whether it was say 2am or 2pm. Very disorientating!
I feel like life is slowly grinding me down.
I think a lot of us experience something similar every now and then. A feeling of hopelessness and heaviness and inertia. Hopefully you can walk through it and out the other side. Hugs.
Thanks
That and seems like it’s Groundhog Day. Definitely not just you feeling this way….
I was thinking: maybe I could be one of those people who goes around to schools and talks to the students about the realities of drug addiction.
Maybe.
The alarm to get ready for work went off and I woke to a text asking if I would like AL today. Hell yeah I do! Back to sleep for me.
The dog is harassing me for food. He doesn’t understand daylight savings.
I’m a bit peckish myself. It’s steak night 🥩
i too bought steak, and frozen cheese mash from aldi
Much the same here, oven baked chips and a fancy salad. Do you use a BBQ for the steaks, or for anything much?
just salt and pepper on a frying pan
I love playing network engineer. Really all I did was unplug some cables then plug some different cables in, but it was still so much fun. I also made our internet not be as shit as I thought it was. Went from 200-500ms latency at 20mbps to 50-150 latency at 50-60mbps
I’m not sure how well the new router will handle multiple devices and concurrent transfers though. It’s pretty much just a test and a way to make the internet usable for now. The old router sucked, but it could handle 20 devices just fine. The new ones for all these features but it’s on the cheaper side, so I have my doubts
Edit: and changing the DNS server to 1.1.1.1 has removed the last bit of slowdown I was noticing. Telstra’s DNS is kinda shit ngl. For the last 6 months I’ve had to use CloudFlare warp or my mobile data to access aussie.zone because it never worked otherwise. I ended up narrowing it down to Telstra’s DNS acting like it’s never heard of an Aussie zone in its entire life, which is how I learnt what DNS even is and how it works
ISPs often choose not to obey TTL on dns records too, because they don’t want to waste the bandwidth refreshing the records. Can be problematic. I usually use 8.8.8.8 (Google)
That’d probably explain why it was always giving me issues. CloudFlare has a form that I can fill out to purge the record cache for certain websites if need be. I set Google’s DNS as secondary, but I like and trust CloudFlare more than I do google, so I’ve always just used them
7:30 and I’m ready for bed. Was awake at 6 tho.
I hear you.
