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[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 29 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (6 children)

It gets better the more familiar you become with it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (5 children)

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.

Ugh, this. And I hate that it's like that.

Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn't overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it's just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.

My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn't tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will ~~probably~~ definitely not look good on me by association despite that I'm nowhere near that.

So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users who also want a place like that.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Ok so wtf is everyone talking about jarring parts

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No idea. Maybe they're still federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear for some odd reason?

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

My confusion is in no way lessened

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