I love seeing familiar faces. It’s like talking to your neighbors. I feel it’s an investment. :)

I check in throughout the day and scroll a little when I get in-between sorts of moments, also watching for notifications. It's still just fitting into my regular day though, a couple minutes here, a couple minutes there.

It's actually a lot better than reddit for that, since there isn't as much activity, so I seldom get sucked deeply in like you can with something with endless content.

What else am I supposed to do at work?

I have a very irregular work schedule, resulting in a lot of free time punctuated by periods of intense crunch. It's not unusual for me to have a few weeks at a time just empty of work.

I post my hobby/sidegig tabletop commission projects, since I'd have been working on them even without Lemmy. Then since in real life I come across many odd things in my traveling, I'll make sure to snap some photos.

Then I just have a daily habit of browsing certain sites and feeds related to various Lemmy communities and linking to Lemmy whatever catches my eye.

A while ago, I had A LOT of free time to shitpost on social media, and I was beginning to miss it.

I don't have as much time anymore. 😭

Recovering from cancer, no job, no friends, too much time.

my job doesn't pay me enough to care about it for the entire time i'm working

Code's compiling, ADD

I have a bad habit of leaving comments when I want to leave none ever. So comments >0 is too many by my own reckoning. I have the free time because depression. I make these comments because I've lost my self control in that respect

This is my go-to "too long to stare at the wall, but not long enough to play a phone game" time waster.

Other than some jerks that I've blocked, being on here reminds me of the old / early days of reddit...before it became Spez's money mill. I find Lemmy to be fairly informative and entertaining. We have a long way to go before becoming a substantial archive of knowledge, but it's kind of exciting to see it slowly grow.

As for having free time: I browse Lemmy while watching baseball games and during various points of down-time throughout the day / week.

I clean fast food places as my job and it doesn't take more than a few seconds to see a meme and make a joke about it when I am waiting on a bucket to fill or while on lunch/a break even when I am actually at work. Shit, I can post with one hand while taking out the garbage.

I quit work when I was 35 and am now 58 (FIRE long before it became a thing and I didn't even consider grifting off the life choice) . I dont consider myself prolific but I have time to post if I wish.

I've been on summer break since May. Started back Monday and I'm very very angry with our new 'leadership' team, so I spend every possible minute browsing my phone. My other activity is deciding on the words I'll say and what song will play as i drop a match behind me on my way out.

Post on company time 😉

My job mostly entails me working in a ticketing system all day. When I'm all caught up and there's no backlog of tickets, I usually kill time hanging out here while I wait for more to come in.

The key isn't in having too much time, it's having no thought going into my comment that i can rapid fire into the crowd.

I have a job where I don’t do anything ninety-seven percent of the time but I need to be ready for the three percent when shit hits the wall.

I get bored easily and had a huge Reddit addiction that I'm slowly weaning off of with Lemmy. Now I mix my time between Lemmy, online Manga, and doing little projects on my phone.

With mobile apps it's easy to squeeze a 5 minutes there and there, and I like the Lemmy community overall. Its size makes it so there's more opportunities to provide valuable comments. I'm a software engineer so it's pretty mentally intensive so I tend to interleave entertainment and work a lot.

Thoracic spinal damage is super rare. The thoracic region is the area where your ribs connect. It isn't like the lumbar spine you likely associate with back problems. It usually requires external sources of traumatic injury to cause problems. Unlike typical back problems, thoracic damage can greatly impact posture; not just in the sense of 'hold your shoulders back and don't slouch' bad posture. This is more like, what you associate with bad posture is somewhat related to fatigue, but you're likely unaware of how much continuous strength you actually have that underpins your ability to remain upright. These muscles are still engaged even when you are reclining above around a 45° angle, just to a lesser extent, and certainly in use while sitting upright or standing. When the thoracic spinal region is chronically damaged, holding posture above 45° can become like lifting a 1 kg dumbbell in your outstretched arm at shoulder height. I can hold posture and situp or stand, but it hurts from the moment I start. By 30 minutes it is painful enough for me to lose the focus to read and comprehend well. By 1 hour in, I'm unable to think clearly over the background noise of the pain. Taking pain meds and muscle relaxers doesn't change anything about my condition. It just makes me care less or less self aware. I am here most often because there is a position I can sit in that allows me to fully relax my back while holding a phone. I spend my up time doing other things, I can sit with my computer in bed longer or hold up a novel size book okay. This is a profoundly lonely existence to deal with long term. I'm often hurting too much to really talk anyways. I need the filter of text to piece my thoughts together and feel like I am myself. In a lot of ways I let this place fill a fundamental social need. I don't expect people to understand. I simply have no access to escape this situation and be myself.

They don't pay me enough at my job so I gotta find something to do while they aren't paying me enough to do my job.

Company time.

I'm constantly bored. So I start scrolling, comment on something, get worked up in an argument, then post/comment somewhere else to cool down. Rinse and repeat

I work in an office

I got on Lemmy between jobs after my previous company had multiple rounds of layoffs (turns out the financials were pretty bad). I had some ability to hang out and wait for a job that I really wanted and spent a lot of free time online until I found one. The new job has tons of downtime waiting to be needed where I either read books or go online, so a fair amount of Lemmy there too.

I work from my phone so it's easy to check Lemmy continuously.

Slow at work, what else am I gonna do? Work?

Can't find work

If I spend more than 15 minutes, not distracted, with my own thoughts, I get sad.

Slow days at the office, but not slow enough to comfortably get into a game. I go home and do the same thing because I'm too tired to do anything else after pretending to be busy for 8 hours.

It’s Saturday

My job is mostly only busy first thing in the morning. I go around and swap out empty containers for full ones. Then I have to refill the empties. The machine takes an hour to run, so that leaves me a bunch of downtime.

At night, I'll make a bunch of posts ahead of time while I watch TV and save the drafts so I can post them quick in the morning before I head off to work. Some days I'll get too much content, and others nothing, so I have about a week's buffer of post content.

I'm unemployed, I don't have friends, girlfriend or any resemblance of social life.