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Culture wise I’d say that Bluesky feels a lot more like Twitter immediately before Musk took over - there’s lots of shitposting & also a lot of “look at me I’m so irreverent so please follow me” vibe to it. It’s easier to find people to follow but harder to find interesting content (on mastodon you can rely on hashtags). It’s also a lot harder to get engagement if you’re not a Twitter big name, there’s a lot more parasociality going on, with more focus on individual posters than on the actual content, which IMO is exactly what a lot of people are looking for.

Mastodon users tend to feel very earnest to a fault. The whole “you forgot to add a CW to your food pic you bastard” thing is unfortunately real, but I’ve mostly stopped seeing this since I put a warning on what I will and will not CW on my timeline. On the bright side, there’s a lot more friendly engagement from strangers. Politically, mastodon users as a whole lean left with a lot of socialists/anarchists but you can curate what you see. It also depends on what circles you follow, for example, I (as a Chinese speaker) stumbled on a huge community of Chinese users who are feminist and anti-CCP, but will probably not consider themselves leftists.

As a whole, I’ve mostly abandoned Bluesky in favor of Mastodon but that’s a personal preference - both are unlikely to completely replace Twitter & the landscape will likely remain fractured for a very long time so just choose the one that vibes with you.

Sigur Ros’s ex drummer was accused of rape and the band itself was accused of tax evasion.

Oops! I stand corrected.

Not exactly bizarre, but it’s fun to learn that the delicious fragrance of shrimps and crabs when cooked comes from chitin, and chitin is also why sautéed mushrooms smell/taste like shrimps.

And since fungi are mostly chitin, plants have evolved defenses against fungi by producing enzymes that destroy chitin, which is how some plants eventually evolved the ability to digest insects.

EDIT: a previous version of this post mistakenly confused chitin with keratin (which our fingernails are made of). Thanks to sndrtj for the correction!

It can apparently grow into a small tree in the wild, but seems to be a slow grower in a pot and stays small on a table top. I’ve had one for maybe a couple of years and it didn’t really seem to grow much.

I’ve seen some kinds of small trees that are used for bonsai without the big bottom part but I’m not familiar with those. There’s also a type of dwarf maple that I’ve seen quite often but know nothing about. Maybe look up bonsai-related communities/websites!

If you’ve decent light, Phyllanthus mirabilis might be a lovely option.

House plants. Sure a few mass-market plants are dirt cheap, but soon you get into unusual plants, plants with special needs, hundreds/thousands of plants, grow lights, grow racks, terrariums, automated watering systems…

This looks lovely. What’s the growing conditions like? I’ve been thinking of getting one of these.

Hello! 👋 We’re mostly on monyet.cc on Lemmy.

It’s more to do with my multicultural upbringing - Malay is the national language here in Malaysia, so it’s pretty much compulsory to learn & speak. My parents are Cantonese & Hakka Chinese, I learnt to speak Malay & Mandarin in school (where ethnic Chinese kids from different dialect groups as well as ppl from other ethnicities mingle), and spoke mostly English in college & work. We also have Indians and other minorities who speak even more dialects/languages than I do.

I’m not from India but as another Asian, yes, we can have fluent conversations in several languages. (I grew up speaking English, Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese and a bit of Hakka)

One thing I like about this: the smooth animation when threads collapse. Not many Lemmy apps I’ve tried nailed this.

Agree with the list view not feeling iOS native. I also find that the bottom tab bar being solid in color while the top navigation bar being translucent a bit weird - I prefer both to be translucent. Of course, I get that the devs and designers have made these design choices for a reason/because of their preferences so I’m not really complaining!

For a beautiful Lemmy app that looks 100% iOS native, just take a look at Bean.