I guess I will go back to part time in 6 months.

Well I was going to go out west for a month but I don’t feel it is worth the hassle of putting up with the possibility of dealing with ICE. While I am a pale white old fucker my wife is not.

Yeah the North Carolina community has 383 subscribers and the last post was 9 days ago.

I may not understand how all this works but the very first page is mostly stuff that is 24 hours old or older. Maybe I am sorting it wrong or something but looking for the latest news is not easy. There should be a way from things that are older than 24 hours to fall off the front page. Also something like reddit enhancement suite would be nice.

Yeah there are roads all over WNC they should maintain but they can’t. That is just here. I can’t imagine what that would be out west.

I am a teacher and I could not imagine staying in a classroom for another 7 years. I barely made it to 63. My retirement begins next week. I just hope 50k a year is enough. That was my goal and when I it it I said I am done.

About a year ago I got banned from Reddit for saying that a hockey player should go to jail for murder after he deliberately cut another guy’s throat with his skate. The video showed it clear as day. I guess that was too spicy for Reddit, even though I stand by what I said. No big deal though. I was getting sick of that place anyway.

I had already played around on Lemmy before that happened, so I just moved over here. I deleted my first account because I felt like I was spending too much time commenting, but I’m back now. I also have a BlueSky account, but honestly, I never use it.

Lemmy has potential. But let’s be real, there are some features it still needs to really work as a Reddit replacement. It could use something like Reddit Enhancement Suite. That means stuff like tagging users, highlighting keywords, managing comments, and keeping track of threads. The mobile apps like Jerboa and Thunder are okay, but they still feel half-finished. Search is another issue. We really need full text search that works across the entire fediverse, not just locally. It would also help to have saved comments and a good bookmarking system. Managing multicommunity subscriptions should be easier too. Markdown needs a proper preview tool, and comment formatting could be better. And it would be nice to have a real modmail or private message system that does not feel like a workaround.

Still, I like being here. The federated model is messy sometimes, but it feels less controlled. And that counts for something.

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