I too think the same way. I purposely stay away from all due to excessive doom and gloom. However I haven’t really found any topic specific instance where I would enjoy local content. Now I think finding interesting topic specific instances is a problem whose solution I haven’t found yet. Communities I can find using search function; I even created an account on lemmy world simply to find obscure communities I would be interested in. I wish there would be a simple search function to find topic specific instances.

Obviously this is just in initial research phase, very far from being unleashed on nature. It would be interesting to see how this research progresses.

That makes sense. For me, I am very sure about what topics/communities I am interested in; other things I am not interested in checking out. My subscribed field takes up the time I allocate to lemmy anyway.

I never browsed all on reddit all the years I was on it.

As a a casual lemmy user with accounts on a few instances, I can say that I never visit the local or all fields of any of my logged in instances. I only visit my subscribed field, which is identical over all my accounts. How much do the local and all fields really matter for users?

Just gave a test. Did OK. Got one question wrong. Having tea and chilling right now.

Truly it was a most beautiful and inspiring story.

Great. This is so useful.

Yes, it’s like people are interested in getting their word out rather than reading other people’s stuff. Still I like that I have a chronological feed which I tweak slightly by muting users whose content I don’t care for and the best thing is that I can browse by hashtags. Without this I wouldn’t have got interested in Mastodon in the first place.

Tehanu was my favourite and it’s so good and so different from the previous books.

I read the Discworld series in publication order and loved it. There was an almost continuous improvement in quality over the first few books which was also satisfying.

Second Small Gods. It’s my favourite discworld book (even though I love the whole series).

So buying a smart TV and connecting it with streaming box/stick for accessing streaming services does seem to be the best solution.

OK that makes sense. I have been using Mastodon for about a few weeks and one thing I have noticed is that most of the posts seem to have almost no comments or any other interaction. I have not yet been able to work out why. Mastodon has way more users than lemmy and also way more content. Then why so less interaction. Is it too many users? Too few users? Completely different platform? I have never used Twitter so can’t even compare with that.

Curious to know why it wouldn’t be a positive thing to get Mastodon people in the comments?

Great. I have already read 1984 so I will now give this a try.

To keep negative things to a minimum I have subscribed to a cat community, aww community, two dog communities, and have restricted myself to only one technology community. No news communities.

You can simply load up mp3 files into a spare/old phone (or your present phone/iPad) and use vlc media player. Your phone will be your mp3 player. I do the exact same thing with old phones lying at home.

Actually by laptop mouse I mean the laptop touchpad. I don’t know whether the problem is the windows update or some malware. So thinking of resetting my pc. Now that will be time consuming.

Since the last windows update, my laptop mouse cursor is occasionally freezing and jumping around. Driving me crazy.