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.

Couple of times I have come across a cat sitting and intently looking into a closed manhole (probably in hunting mode waiting for rats) and they completely ignore me when I meow at them! Lol.

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?

Aww. So lucky you come across cute cats when you are out and about. The cats in my area are always hiding when I go outside. I can see them from my balcony (on the 4th floor), but never when I am actually downstairs. The only time I actually see cats outside is when I visit the fish market.

Cute cat. Is the username a parks and recreation reference?

Haha thought it would be something different - a nice change.

Truly it was a most beautiful and inspiring story.

I’d say 5 out of 5 prefer a box.

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).

I know it’s very preliminary data but can’t help being a little excited! It’s so interesting!

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.

Must say that’s a perfectly legitimate use of a new box!