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[–] Tehhund@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Take my canoe out on the nearby lake.

Write little web apps that no one but me uses.

[–] roleyy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago

I make music as a hobby. It's one of the few things that I enjoy doing and have been consistent with. I like to hear how my sound has changed over the years, I started with making trap beats now I'm into bass production. There is soo much depth to the art, there is essentially an infinite amount of knowledge and skill to obtain.

Another thing is house plants. I like how beautiful they are, and seeing them grow, and taking propagations. I've also grown trees from seeds, in fact I just picked up a bunch of maple seeds this week that I'm going to plant, now I'm waiting for some acorns to drop.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Playing guitar. It’s just tops. A lot of people know I play since I’ve been doing it forever, and I’m pretty fucking good at it these days, but I’m pretty sure my brother is the only person to have ever heard my songs since I last played in a band, and that’s only because he asked to hear them. He describes my sound as prog-doom-metal, which makes sense given my influences.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Write fantasy TTRPG content. I've yet to make a cent from it in 10 years. You basically can't if you aren't a big publisher.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

I make endless dadjokes irl. I don't care if anyone laughs or reacts. They make me happy

[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Donating to KDE and Signal. Though now that I've said it, it'll sound like I do it for validation...!

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I donate a small amount to Wikipedia every month

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago

whistling. singing to myself. walking around. usually with my dog so sorta a reason but I decide where to go (somewhat). video games. consuming media (meh not sure love fits there. kinda a background or filler acitivity)

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago

I've been repairing a 25 year old Golf 4 1.4. Everyone has been telling me it's not worth it, dad wanted to buy a "new" one at some point (read: newer SH car), my grandma thinks I spend way too much money on it.

My biggest spend was the 750 euro paint job (bodywork was completely messed up). Besides that it's been only minor work. I still have a slightly rich running issue to fix.

Nobody thinks I should be doing this but damnit I am not buying a newer car. It will be just as if not less reliable but cost twice as much to repair stuff on it. No thanks.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I have websites that provide technical information on several subjects.

I don't have ads, I don't SEO. I just enjoy sharing free knowledge on the internet.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Link? I have a similar thing at samartean-rares.com/. I post whatever info that felt relatively hard to get to me, practical work or whatever I think people may find useful. And yea I don't think anyone found my website so far but it's whatever.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

playing piano, painting

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We used to stream and YT vids for the love of it but got burned out. Now we’re trying to get back into YT but this time with animation. We’re not very good at animation mind you, but we’ll be trying regardless x)

[–] vrihaspati110@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah man, I just started a shitty little motion graphics based YT shorts based on serial killers and true crime, I love making those picture move.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Ooo can we bug you for a link? Always love finding new story animations in yt :3

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 22 hours ago
[–] sixtoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago
[–] Pixelotes@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I create open source apps (mainly for my own needs). All of them have zero forks and zero stars, but I don't mind. I love architecting apps and who knows if someone might find any of them useful someday.

[–] dorkage@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Well give us a link and let's see if they are useful to any of us!

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You're awesome. <3

[–] underThunder@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

Play guitar.

[–] IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

Probably killing. It's a bit frowned upon, but man is it a rush.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Holding the door.

It's just the bare minimum we should be doing for each other.

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Exercise. I mean I hate it but I crave it and I am not a skinny person by all means so it is something that I do for me and how it makes me feel.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I post and share photography. Some of my works that I think are mediocre get a lot of attention, and some of my most-loved works are nearly ignored.

But I post for me.

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[–] bumbling_bee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Taking photos.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

expanding my large collection of porn.

I don't need the recognition, I do it for the love of the game.

[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I make drawings, well, just with black ink/ fineliner on paper. I have a box full of them and even have some on my wall. Never tried to sell them or even post them. The only people who know it are my husband, my parents, my brother and best friend. Only abstract, maybe tattoo-ish.

Have done this since.. highschool. Comes and goes in phases. When the mood strikes. Have always loved that my hand-eye coordination is so good, can make fluid lines and it almost looks like it's printed. But well, I guess it'll keep going unnoticed. ;)

[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Fellow artist who sometimes gets impostor syndrome from time to time: I would love to see your work if you ever want to share.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

I am asking because I stream really boring streams all the time. People are welcome to tune in and check out, and there is no expectation of interaction at all. If someone gets some joy out of watching someone fly in a flight simulator listening to chill music for hours at a time, that's great.

It reminds me of this youtuber, who has thousands of videos with almost no views.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheImprovyssey

[–] c0dezer0@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Picking up trash when i am walking.

I don't do it everytime. But sometimes when i see trash on the ground and there is a trash can in the near I will pick it up.

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[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I started playing bass guitar on Rocksmith about 5 years ago. I'm in the top ten on most songs on the medium difficulty, and have almost 1000 hours in the game.

I've never actually played bass in front of anyone other than my ex, and I've never really tried to play without the game.

At first I thought I wanted to get good enough to join a band, or at least play along with my family, all musicians, when they get together, but it turns out I just really enjoy spending a Friday night with a half pint of whiskey and jamming alone with headphones.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 3 points 1 day ago

we need to jam though

that same feeling with some cool peeps is the fuckin bees knees man

watching where the music goes

hell yeah i need to get my drums back together!

[–] lasta@piefed.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 children)

Keep doing what you are passionate about ❤️ 

Personally, I enjoy making neat, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials for my various interests and forwarding them to people who want to learn something I know about. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone to show me things and it was often overwhelming having to figure everything out on my own without a clear starting point, so I don’t want anyone else to feel the same way or to feel ashamed for not knowing something.

I love languages so I would also offer free translation for people’s projects upon request and would also translate song lyrics when translation software was much worse than it is now.

When I can, I donate anonymously to causes I support and donate blood too.

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[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Drink beer. To excess, at least once a week.

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[–] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Woodworking - I'm not very good at it (yet) but I keep at it and I'm convinced someday I'll make something really cool.

[–] shelf@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago
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