@Maxcoffee that’s understandable. My boss also hates Markdown. It’s not for everyone. I like how lightweight it is, how many things support it, the inline formatting, portability, etc.
Like I said though, it’s definitely not for everyone.
My biggest pet peeves is partial support for markdown.
@Stronk +1 for Obsidian! I love it. It’s definitely different than OneNote. Notion may actually be a better fit for you, but I encourage everyone to check out Obsidian just to see if it’s for you! Excellent software.
@floofloof I would love to move to Matrix/Element but don’t know a single person who uses it, so it doesn’t seem like it would much benefit me unfortunately. I do still have an account though.
What are you doing to help your community?
I’ve joined the new equivalents of the coule of major communities I was very active in, and have been trying to contribute to conversations instead of just lurking. I know when I joined it was a little disheartening to see so little activity/content. If newcomers are going to stay, there needs to be both!
How do you go from lurking to contributing?
That’s a good question. I make it a point to comment on any post I find slightly interesting, and to try and make it a discussion-based comment, not one that just dead-ends immediately.
As far as as posting goes, I’m still working on that one. Reddit was a source of a lot of news and such for me, so I’m slowly getting new sources for that to share.
I think for a lot of people, it’s easier to contribute here because the overall user base is so much smaller and it feels like you have a voice, whereas on Reddit even fairly prominent community members could still get drowned out on their community’s subreddits by all the noise.
Spreading the word?
I’ve been talking to friends about my recent shift into the Fediverse and why it’s a good concept and how my experience has been. They seem interested in the concept, but aren’t bothered by Reddit’s actions, so they probably won’t jump ship. Not going to be pushy about it, just want people to know how cool the concept is, you know?
Also, what’s for breakfast?
Just woke up, so I’m still deciding. Most likely eggs and toast!
@dystop I hate that this happened to you in the first place, but that malicious compliance was…
@SilentStorms oh, clunky is an understatement. That’s downright unusable on mobile.
@eclipse also as a new user coming from Reddit, I personally liked that they are screening new users. Super quick and easy to fill out.
@Vexz yeah if you want other tables you’d need to use embeds to embed tables from an external source unfortunately.
@anaximander absolutely this! I use Obsidian for my notes/PKM and love it. While not FOSS, you’re not locked in at all. I write technical documentation using it for work. Our chosen documentation system doesn’t integrate with it (not without me building a custom API), but because it’s essentially just Markdown files, and the platform supports editing Markdown, I can document as I please then upload it to our platform. It’s a great piece of software with a good dev team and the software has generally good structure/ideology. I never hesitate to recommend it!
Millennial here. Lucky enough that about 1/3rd of our friend group (and four family members) are somewhat privacy focused and moved to Signal. But getting the rest of everyone to move to better E2E messaging is rough.
@AlataOrange Bacon reader was my first 3rd party apps for Reddit and really what made Reddit great for me in the first place. Thank you and the team for doing work that brought me to Reddit!