Lasting happiness? There's always going to be downs as well as ups in life. Stoicism will teach you how to handle the pitfalls in life without dwelling on them and helping you to get on in life. Buddhism will help you to understand that life is full of sorrow but that the journey is it's own reward and that joy can be found anywhere.
A perpetual state of satisfaction can be reached that's liberally peppered with happiness. Happiness is not an end goal. It's the after affect of a effortful life that invites playfulness and new experiences.
The key word here is effort. Happiness should not be the main goal. Living your values. Finding a process and journey that meets your values and challenges you slightly will bring satisfaction.
Be carful of self help books and systems. Many are designed to put you on a perpetual wheel of needing more and more books to buy and classes to take. They are money generators that will tell you they offer the golden cure. And if you didn't succeed with the system in a few months then here's part two you can buy.
I do like THE HAPPINESS LAB podcast as a starting point. There's a free Yale course too. The teaching there can get you to examine some stuff.
Be kinder to yourself but do put some challenges in your way. Happiness is not about having a placid life.
Curious if someone in an abusive relationship could use this trick if their phone was being monitored. If the abuser was just monitoring them with the phone's parental controls this would work but if there was an app probably not?
I know many instances are not upgrading until the majority of bugs and issues are resolved. In the meantime if Jerboa got upgraded (it looks nice, BTW) then it won't play nice with the older versions of Lemmy. On Saturday I discovered Connect for Lemmy inside the Google Play Store.
I figured for us who need something to read on our phones while we poop, this would be good until our instance gets updated.
Whoops. Just discovered I'm having issues posting or commenting with Connect while in my instance. I'm guessing you do have to log into an instance that's upgraded or view everything in a browser. Bummer.
The thing is that Meta and Reddit are masters of social manipulation through their algorithms. They know what low common denominators get the most engagement. I blame FB for a big number of echo Chambers and that just fed people their own negativity right back, made them spiral into a bad place mentally.
If they have any ability to post to the Fediverse or to track things they'll do it all over again.
It's the halcyon days of the Fediverse. Negativity on my feed is nonexistent. There's discussion. There's respect for differences. I know things will change with time but it's important that the big instances never work as proxies for big tech. It's important that big tech doesn't get a seat at the table. Voices should remain individual and not some mouthpiece to an industry that wants centralized control.
An excellent read. My synopsis is that if any big corporations joined the Fediverse they would fracture it, and that no matter what Meta, Reddit, Google, etc. would never want to see a decentralized platform succeed.
Pretty much the Fediverse needs to never let a big company tie into it. Our group needs to work at growing but at a sustainable rate.
It's yard work and the zoo for me. I hope all within the communities have a great weekend. Go socialize with those you care about. Peace.
The negativity is definitely less. Sure, out of say fifty comments to a post there's maybe two disgruntled souls. Overall it's conducive to discussion.
Over on reddit I kept to just hobby subreddits for the most part to make comments. Only way to not come across the trolls.
Yes, the clean UI is wonderful. It's good to have something simple. It's also fun to watch something grow.
Wasn't that labor ward responsible for mixing babies some time ago?
Sorry, I don't follow the rules. wild card
I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I'm most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all.
What are you doing to help your community? How do you go from lurking to contributing? Spreading the word?
Also, what's for breakfast?
This obfuscation of who works for who via a series of subcontracts is horrible. I personally know of the janitorial BS that got started by Winters Cleaning and the cinema industry in the 90s. There's an article that Variety did on it some years back. It's about removing responsibility from the company benefitting from the labor. It increases the likelihood that impoverished, desperate people will be taken advantage of. When problems are noticed the last company in the line of subcontractors just fold up. No one is held accountable.
If Amazon has deep control of operations due their contracts, then yes, Amazon is their employer.
Mine will depend if my wife's girl's weekend happens. If it does then I'm doing an art trail, which she would hate.
I mean, almost all social media has a learning curve but Lemmy is one that if you don't put in the effort you're not going to learn it and use it. It's not seamless to master.
Design for it is an offshoot of what developers made that work for them. There's a gap between that and what the lay person who grew up with phone apps are willing to put up with.
I know Lemmy will grow and develop. But there's going to be a bleed off of active users from these waves of new members. I'm hoping that the communities grow fast and that the phone app is designed with the average high school kid or octogenarian in mind.
If I wasn't a kid who grew up figuring out driver issues or the blue screen of death in Windows all of the time I may have moved on after my first couple of hours with Lemmy.
Truly. I want to see the platform grow and flourish. But it has some hurdles.
I think the reddit hug of love is affecting things today on the 12th.
Just a general question, on a mobile device is using your browser or an app the better experience? And if using an app is Jaebra the one most people use?