Yes. The people here are neat.

Not really, but also kind of all the time. I’m mostly here for memes and shitposts, just as a kind of substitute for actually having friends, and its doing that pretty well.

Nothing truly productive or useful, in the sense of somethings changed my beliefs for the better, or I feel ive made a positive contribution. Its been pretty negative in that sense, as the politically minded people online will jump at you if they suspect wrongthink, so ive learned to just avoid them as much as I can help.

This place is mostly doing exactly what I want it to most of the time though so its good.

I have, I’ve had several turn from relatively hostile to productive. Usually I just end up understanding their argument better, but that’s still nice. For reference, these are usually about fairly contentious topics. It’s one of the things that I like the most about this site.

Tons of them. Just today I taught one person about bird biology in regards to feather replacement and another I am helping prepare their family farm to hopefully host a barn owl nest we desperately need in our state.

It is also due to the great conversations I had here with people everyday that encouraged me to get involved with wildlife rehabilitation 2 years ago and it’s been one of the greatest adventures in my life. Everyone has been so supportive and has helped me develop my knowledge by asking great questions and sharing their enthusiasm with me about so many beautiful animals.

I’ve also participated in some political threads when the events were local and I’d been able to add nuance to the conversation. The trick is to just read the room and see if the thread is already trending hostile and just learn who is here to be combative vs to have real discussions.

I also just try to not be a jerk myself. I said something yesterday that got a more outspoken communists a bit insulated and I explained what my point of the original comment was a bit better and they calmed down when they saw I wasn’t being insulting to their beliefs.

I just use the same guidelines for conversation I would in real life here, and almost all my interactions here are positive ones.

I became a true believer in the pathway to a communist society. At very least I now understand how capitalism is so often doomed from within.

The shitposting is 🧑‍🍳🤌💋

Lots of funny, good natured people just doing the meme thing.

The womensstuff community has been quite a positive corner of the fediverse for me.

I’ve also had great chats about music, punk specifically, and food with other lemmings.

Yes, advice from Lemmy helped me sort out my HRT regimen, and it’s made a huge quality of life improvement for me :-)

I had a great discussion on Mastodon about the logic of making bike helmets a legal requirement or not. I learned a lot and actually changed my mind on the subject…

Indeed I have. We recently got a used truck, and the windshield wipers and radio didn’t work. After some outside research plus some discussion on Lemmy, I figured out the ignition switch wasn’t activating the accessory systems, which require power from the yellow wire.

So, the truck is missing the dome light, but there’s 4 wires hanging above the rear view mirror, black, white, orange, and yellow…

I touched the orange to the yellow, and guess what, the radio came to life! So I told my roommate to try the wipers, and sure enough they work too!

We now have a toggle switch for that dangling under the rear view mirror for that.

Thanks again @seathru 👍

All the time and in many different communities.

I’ve learned a lot about history, Linux terminal commands, wildlife, and even got manga recommendations from discussions with folks here.

I do my best to avoid antagonistic conversation towards other users.

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