Lemmies who post or comment way too much by your own reckoning(raises own hand), how do you have so much free time?

Varyk@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 128 points –

Also, thank you for posting and commenting and making such an exciting community thrive!

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

I share your sentiment. I feel optimistically productive while posting, at least some of the time

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?

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. 😭

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.

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

Congratulations on the first mark! That's great to hear.

How much longer in your recovery regimen?

Are you pretty active again?

Thank you so much! I just got news last week that I’m in full remission (although still incurable because myeloma) and my blood tests are “pristine”. Still suffering from extreme post-chemo fatigue, both mental and physical. It is what it is, better than the alternative.

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

Nice, here's to hoping you can whittle down the few hours you are not on Lemmy even further.

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

I seem to compulsively leave comments as well, I think they help give body to the community.

Its good Lemmy work

That's a good way to look at it lol, I'm contributing to the Lemmy fluff. Someone will read it and eat 5 seconds of their time, thus contributing to the goal of Lemmy; wasting time

Wating time Learning!

Constant cultural and empathetic expansion!

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

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.

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 agree about Lemmy feeling like the early days of Reddit, I'm much more meaningfully engaged here than most of my time on reddit.

I feel like I'm actually talking to people here.

Same. While I wish the user base was larger, I've been impressed with some of the answers people have provided to folks needing advice. Also, some of the discussions around news and current events are insightful / thought-provoking.

So much of this! Someone made a comment about an Ovaltine decoder ring and i laugh about that at least once per week.

I have never knew the golden Reddit, I've only seen it get just worse and the history of the legendary Aaron Swartz, so I hope you're telling the truth. ^^

It's kind of like the one year that Facebook was cool: you signed up, there was active moderation that encouraged community growth, there weren't too many users endeavoring to be in a monoculture, and the company wasn't trying to make money at the expense of its user base.

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.

"Oh, I forgot..."

drops match

Cue "It's getting boring by the sea" by blood red shoes.

That's a good continual conundrum.

Happy judgments to you.

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.

That is fire. Congrats.

Why grift after you already have what you need after all?

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.

Catharsis, tech support，encouragement, Lemmy's right here.

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.

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.

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.

I honestly expected more answers to be like this.

Glad you're here and glad there's a position you can find some relief and still get some solid community/social engagement and dumb memes.

I think a lot depends on the degree a person is stuck dealing with issues. If I could ever let go of the pain, I wouldn't talk about it or want to. For me it is like stupid annoying background music I have to shout over to think or do anything. Thanks though.

Did you post recently about concerts? I've been thinking about that and how difficult that would be.

I didn't post about concerts. I don't follow, sorry.

Sorry. My mistake. Someone recently posted that they had a medical condition that severely limited their outings and the thing they missed most was attending concerts.

No problem. Heck I miss the grocery store, or any chance to interact with real people without being weird or at least weirder than normal. I look fine, and try to mask the pain, but it just comes across as awkward and I end up hurting for days when I push harder. Getting dressed and traveling to a concert is hell for me. I hope whoever it was gets the chance to live their dreams through.

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.

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.

Company time.

If you're paid to do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

Commendable

I won't have what I love tainted by employer/customer expectations.

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.

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 get worked up without even being bored first.

I hadn't considered Lemmy as emotional catharsis, but I guess most interaction can or even sometimes must be emotional catharsis.

I don't. But I have many periods of five idle minutes to spare, and I sort by new as default.

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.

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

I'm glad this grab bag of errant thoughts is available for you to wade through!

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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.

Ha, this reminds me of another comment about dandori, the Japanese art of time management referenced in Pikmin.

I think they were talking about their work, while you use dandori for the more important lemmyverse. Nice.

I don't post a lot but I have a lot of free time due to being T-boned on my motorcycle from someone running a red light. My mobility has been seriously restricted since. When I was working full time and posting a lot on Reddit I was training corporate engineering sw. When I wasn't training I had a lot of time on my hands at work so I'd scroll reddit. I was also traveling a lot so I was away from home and reddit was sort of my travel family

Nice to have a community to be a part of, for sure.

Sorry to hear about the asshole hitting you, I hope physical rehab goes well and you regain maximum mobility allowed.

The Dr said my foot was squished like stepping on a grape and you can't put the grape back together again. But I'm so thankful to have a foot and leg at all after that so I appreciate what I have not what I don't have, even though it does get burdensome when pain or lack of movement is high

I'm very happy for you and your very healthy perspective, my best to your grape-foot.

A grapefoot is still a great foot.

I embrace dandori

Cool term.

"the art of organizing tasks strategically and working effectively to execute a plan"

https://pikmin.fandom.com/wiki/Dandori#:~:text=Dandori%20is%20the%20art%20of,from%20the%20Japanese%20word%20%E6%AE%B5%E5%8F%96%E3%82%8A.

I keep seeing Pikmin results, but that concept must have existed before Pikmin right? Which I still haven't played any of, to my regret.

It's a term I got from Pikmin 4! Which is fitting as it's a game about strategizing and making the best use of your time. When you search the Japanese word itself there are pages older than the game. It basically translates to "the importance of preparation and planning in advance, and what order to do your tasks in to proceed smoothly"

I don't think I comment way too much, but probably sometimes it's too much. Those times it's because online existence is a form of escapism, and sometimes that's useful escapism that helps me to survive, and sometimes it's maladaptive escapism. Often it's both.

Escapism is a reasonable explanation for overcommenting.

Good point

Next time you think that it's too much remember people like me who have 10x in the same timeframe. I'm not proud but at least I can hopefully provide you relief. Unless it's interfering with your ability to function and maintain relationships/responsibilities then I think it's a fine outlet.

What is too much? I post a few comments most mornings or evenings.

Your own metric.

I'm one of those posting 2 dozen comments deep defending the accuracy of a point.

I like talking and creating conversations, but I do think "well, that's basically a short story" every so often.

I don't get how people can comment way too much. I barely comment or post anything not just on Lemmy but on every platform.

It's definitely just time for me.

I sit around chilling out and if I get a message I might as well answer it because who knows, maybe I'll learn something, or what they're saying will be interesting

I work in a huge building where I frequently have to walk a lot to get to places, so I comment while walking.

I can usually do my job in like 2-3 h/day. I have significant domestic and childcare responsibilities, but it still leaves free time.

Smoke break 🚬

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Those'll kill you.

Without cigarettes, of course, you will never die.