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    I’ve finally succumbed to the reddit API changes.

    Lemmy is still a bit strange to me, but I think I’m finally getting it to the point of being similar to what I was seeing on Reddit (albeit with much fewer users and therefore less content).

    I’m glad to see the Melbourne daily thread be active here.

    Seeing how few users there are on Lemmy also makes me feel like I want to be more active?! I was much more of a lurker on Reddit.

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      Welcome!

      I think once any group gets too big a lot of people end up just stepping back and watching. On Reddit I always felt that it wasn’t worth contributing, if you didn’t get a popular reply on quickly it would end up sinking and no one would see it. The fast and loud people had lots of entertaining conversations, but there was not much space for the slow and thoughtful. You are not the first person to say you lurked on Reddit but felt you could contribute here. 🙂

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      I was also more of a lurker, but it is a lot less intimidating to make a comment or post here. Too many trolls, automatic downvoters and “akshually” types on Reddit. Welcome aboard!

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      Totally! I always hated that the conversation for something is already in full swing, so your comment wouldn’t be seen by a lot of people. It’s also why I like to contribute more in the DT because on the Reddit one it always felt like reading every comment was so daunting. But being able to have not many people here (with most of the comments being in replies) I can at least catch up when I get home from work or during my lunch break.

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    Just finished the last of this calligraphy practice. Only two mistakes!! I’m quite happy with it. I love the red water colour. :) ( oh dear, the closer I look the worse it looks ) 😂

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    PSA to remind people to not let their mind imagine crazy scenarios.

    Friend had been distant all week and not replying to texts so I thought they’d had enough of me or I’d said something wrong.

    Sent them a text saying “Hey. If you’ve got a few free minutes today can you call for a quick chat?” Less than half an hour later they called me and I got to hear about all the crap going on in their life and it cheered both of us up.

    Sometimes people just retreat into themselves when life gets hard or hectic and need a friend to draw them out.

    Be that friend.

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      I feel like retreating and I guess I have been hiding away from all my friends and family though last night I reached out to my dad because I felt like I had to finally.

      This place is my last bastion of contact with people because I’m finding it real hard of late and want to hide away and disappear quite honestly.

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          Thank you so much for your well wishes.

          Trying my best but I never feel it’s enough.

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              Just I wished I had listened more to my partner.

              She told me to stop paying for her medical stuff incase I had an emergency or something happened and now I’m in that spot where my basic needs are suffering. (Washing machine)

              But what sort of a partner would I be if I didn’t try my best to help her?

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                  Yeah. I think about what I had done and keep replaying it and cursing myself for choosing or making a decision.

                  If I didn’t try and wash my oodie I wouldn’t have broken my washing machine.

                  To think about what’s ahead as well, I know it might not seem like a big problem but it’s one of the few comforts I didn’t want to go without.

                  I guess maybe what I might do is I wash and taking my stuff to a dryer and pay for the use of a dryer.

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        Yeah reaching out can be hard when struggling.

        Good that you could find it in you to reach out. It takes strength. Many won’t reach out at all and just suffer in silence for an eternity.

        My friend tries so hard to be the strong and reliable father, husband, and son, and just soldiers on.

        He forgets to reach out for someone to help him cause he’s too busy helping everyone else.

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          My washing machine broke halfway yesterday which is why I reach out to my dad, I was anxious and needed to talk because I’m financially at rock bottom having had to support my partner with her medical bills for the past 3 and a half years.

          Mind you I haven’t come up with a solution other than to see how I can handle drip drying wet clothes first or finding cheap or free replacement.

          I’ll have to see what happens when i do the next wash and see what happens.

          Ever with reaching out it doesn’t help with the problems other than airing them out.

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              I hope so.

              With my dad he sometimes tries to overcompensate because he wasn’t around when I was growing up and feels like it was a missed chance so his input can come to be a little heavy sometimes.

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      What scenario should I not be imagining for a friend who stopped responding to texts for minimum a week each time and cancelled two catch ups, after not being able to catch up for almost 2 months because they were so busy? I’m reading signals to stop contacting them.

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    My pasta

    A photo of my shell pasta, mushrooms, chorizo, zucchini, onion, garlic, chives and chilli flakes. I forgot the tomatoes. I called it “everything that was in fridge went into my dish”. It tasted way better than it looks.

    An early dinner because I was hungry.

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    Including the early thread with 30 comments, we are still at over double the activity compared to the old r/Melbourne subreddit.

    I hope those who don’t go to the old sub frequently can find there way here.

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      Reports from a couple of mates who use it say they find this one buddy and slow to load. I assume they’re on a phone. Any ideas or can I inform them of improvements.

      Still, this place kicks it’s butt for content also. The old daily thread seems to be a lot of the same questions people posted as posts before the great reddit blunder of 2023 which would pretty much be instantly downvoted to the bottom. Loud bangs, tailgating drivers, choppers over reservoir etc. I might be exagurating a little, but it’s lost its soul nonetheless.

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        I’m using Mlem on iPhone and it has a few bugs still but I’m enjoying feeling like it’s the start of something bigger and better.

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        I feel like we flhave a natural filter that keeps the ruder Facebook users there. I would just suggest giving Jerboa a try, put the time into setting it up and subscribing to C/Melbourne+ a few major communities.

        You can give them a list of easy links like;

        !melbourne@aussie.zone

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        I mean, its not as slick as the Reddit app but just a chrome tab on my phone works just fine for me

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          Ah, yeah I’m using some third party browser. It won’t log me in using that, but read only isn’t terrible. Maybe I’ll use chrome just for this.

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        I originally made an account with lemmy.world. everything was fine until there was a big influx of users on that instance, then it all slowed down. I then made an account with aussie.zone which is clearly a much smaller instance. Much much quicker now.

        If they are iPhone users point them towards the wefwef PWA - https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/all . It’s basically Apollo through a web app.

        If Android, Connect or Jerboa are the best apps currently, with RIF and Sync to release Lemmy versions within a month or so.

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        I’m not sure how to let them know without seeming like we are desperate, so just casually mentioning something like “wow, I can’t believe how much less activity there is on the old subreddit compared to the Lemmy community”.

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    This morning I met this friendly handsome guy on my walk. He was very happy to make my acquaintance. I think I’m in love.

    Photo description: a chunky and fluffy cat RUNNING up the footpath to headbutt me and get pats.

    spoiler

    Edit: don’t really appreciate that the website rotated the picture, but whatever

  • Sir_ListerOfSmeg@aussie.zone
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    Self-care Sunday has kicked in early with a 7am dry sauna session.

    Local gym has an 80 degree dry sauna that is absolute magic. Even more so when it’s empty this early and I don’t have to listen to people talk shit.

    What has everyone else got scheduled in for self-care today?

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    Picked up a 7kg ham from cheaper buy miles for $25, will portion and freeze.

    Also a ton of non alcoholic “booze” cos I’m doing dry July

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    Spending my Sunday morning doing a job application because it won’t happen during the working week. It’s rare for good roles to come up in my field and this one sounds perfect, so going for it. I HATE writing cover letters, never been good at it. I open with why the role has appealed to me and anything I write sounds hella corny.

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    I am now officially stuffed full of curry.

    In other good news, bot #001 seems to be doing better after training - has been running for a few hours without crashing & successfuly conducted a test posting. I’ve promised it a new wi-fi dongle tomorrow if it can manage to stay awake all night and post succesfully, hopefully that will help too 🤣

    Edit: might have spoken too soon, just after I posted this it crashed again. I think it might be related to the code that is supposed to pin the posts which doesn’t work (it needs to be updated for the new server edition) so I have gone through and stripped out all the code relating to that process. Finger’s crossed that does it.

    curry

    Image: Curry. So much curry it’s crazy one person ate the whole bowl. Chicken and potato massaman curry, with green beans, capsicum & tomato. Served with rice & cucumber raita.

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    Huge turnout for the #Yes23 launch at Trades Hall today, despite the dull weather.

    Momentum is gathering and it is wonderful to see!

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      Vote Yes in the referendum! It’s a great step in the direction of implementing the Uluru Statement. My dream is for state and federal governments to have treaties with the First Nations. We could be so much more as a country!

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      Good to know, my old neighbours are first nations from out back of Alice and told me to vote yes, so that’s enough for me! Yes it is.

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      Fantastic. I’ve been looking at the goddamn reddit side and it’s such a racist shitshow (why, oh why did we not deal with Murdoch before this), so I’d started to lose hope. Honestly really excited to see the Yes campaign take shape!

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    I want to apologise to everyone here about having to put up and read about my side of things.

    I know there are probably many others in tough positions and I’ve probably had too much a winge and complain today.

    I should probably just focus on solving the problem and taking it in stride or waiting to solve the problem instead of being so down about all the worst aspects of it all and what it might mean.

    Apologies to everyone for the doomposting.

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    Well Jetstar cancelled my flight for no actual reason they could give me. Also, apparently they sent an SMS and email yesterday informing me…I did not receive either, and only checked my flight on account of a comment by @the_procrastinata earlier. My partner, who could have been an old school travel agent in another life, somehow managed to get me a better flight which the staff said was unavailable. Currently spending my $24 dollars of Jetstar food vouchers…