I try to limit my social media to less than 30m per day. Lemmy is pretty much exclusively the only SM I use

Not sure if this is sarcasm but can you explain how this relates to free speech?

I'm going to get downvoted to hell for half but as a long time Spotify user, I switched to YouTube music last year because of the recommendations. I guess it depends on what it listen to, but I found that Spotify if I listened to one thing for a while and then wanted to go back to what I was listening to a couple months ago, all my recommendations were the new thing, like they decided I just didn't like the old thing anymore 🙁

The pilots are antique?

I sure hope so. It's about damn time.

I'm here from reddit

Can you explain? Not familiar with this case

Wait... Distilled?

I absolutely loath the American favorite: 8/9. Like fuck, is that August 9th, September 8th, or just a fraction??

I think the biggest problem with bootstrapping niche communities is that people interested in those topics have to search for and find the communities. There are a few resources for finding new communities such as https://lemmyverse.net/communities and the Reddit migration community, but it takes some effort.

Do some coding for fun, go for a walk or bike ride, maybe read a book or watch something

I have been in the unfortunate position of spending hours looking for a semi colon. Well I was looking for a bug, I didn't know it was a missing semi colon. But it was my first internship after doing one CS class and I was writing PHP.