They're not getting the sweet funding they used to so now they actually have to be profitable.
None at the moment, used to have a Netflix subscription but not even that now.
Even the bots migrated from Reddit.
I don't claim to know the answer but I'll tell you what I do. I chose what I do for a career because I was simply naturally good at it (UI design/web dev). Do I love it? I wouldn't say love it, but I do like it sometimes and tolerate doing it everyday. Do I regret it? Sometimes! But the grass is always greener on the other side.
Take a good look at everything you do and ask yourself what comes more easily for you or what can you see yourself being able to handle in a realistic scenario (with actual clients demanding a thousand little changes for example). I think to answer the question it would help to know yourself better and know what kind of jobs are more aligned to you. For example, are you a people person or rather work a bit more isolated? Do you get easily stressed with tight deadlines? Are you okay with being on-call 24/7? Etc, etc.
Also try not to tell yourself that you will hate the career down the road, you might start loving it more, who knows? What you tell yourself matters in how you perceive your choice.
When it comes to hobbies, I keep them to myself and I don't try to monetize them or else it'll just feel like work! So I constantly remind myself to separate them because in a hobby I just want to have fun. I also pick up hobbies and "drop" them later but I sort of stopped feeling bad about it because I started to think of it as "rotating" among the hobbies I like because I usually get back to them after a while. So it might look something like:
Start playing piano > get completely obsessed with it > start losing interest > won't touch it for 3 months > (then repeat from the start over and over)
That way I don't feel bad about it cuz I know I'll get back to it eventually and that's okay, there are no rules concerning how many hobbies one should have or how to go about it.
Just my two cents and I wish you lots of luck figuring it out!
That cash must have a lot to say...
One of my concerns is that a big corp adopts it, makes it popular and contributes to it so much that they might as well own it. For example, imagine a company like Microsoft or Google ends up making an instance and their own software like Lemmy or kbin. Since they have the money to develop, refine it and advertise, it could gain mainstream popularity and people start creating communities and content inside Microsoft's or Google's instance. If it grows to a point where 80%-95% of the content generated is from that single instance then what happens then? Sure we can still create accounts on Lemmy.world or kbin.social and see that content but we're relying on the content on their instance. If they decide to defederate then we lose all that content so then you'll have to create an account with them to access it (just like Reddit). And if we don't we'll have to start over again, at least when it comes to content.
I'm still figuring out how all of this works so I might be wrong.
Definitely. Plus, there can be more than one community for niches and that's alright, for people who don't want to use Reddit there's a community for them and for people who don't care then they can keep using the one over there. These new communities shouldn't feel like they "owe" something to the equivalent community on Reddit, the new ones are just as legit as them.
Sudden barrage of new posts don't let me read a thing
I'm not sure where to post about problems in the platform, if here or at lemmy.ml but there's a problem that's quickly getting annoying and that's the fact that whenever I choose All communities and choose anything other that "Active" the posts constantly refresh themselves rather than refreshing when I want. It makes it hard to browse and read things.
This is in the browser, mobile or desktop.