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.

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).

That’s great. Now that’s an instance I sometimes feel like joining.

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.

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.

I have found that I cannot concentrate on content if I am only listening to it. I think this is probably because I am not good at multi-tasking. So I listen to audiobooks of books which I have already read before, so that if I miss some point it won’t make a lot of difference. In my case listening to audiobooks is particularly helpful when I have a headache accompanied by eye strain. I just close my eyes and listen to any of my favourite books.

Oh great I will check that out!

I remember watching a you tube video about how the cement used in ancient Roman architecture has proven to be super durable. I don’t remember details but it was interesting.

Thanks for the report. It was very interesting.