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.

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?

I could never say no to that face 🥰 The ears are very impressive.

Oh he is so cute. I so want to pet him. Give him a pet from my side.

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.

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.

I’d say 5 out of 5 prefer a box.

Great. This is so useful.

Oh I love that channel. And this breed seems to be so healthy. Best part seems the life expectancy.

I will look into this. Thanks.

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.

When I experience an argumentative back and forth where it gets increasingly clear that the opposite person is arguing just to have a fight or is unable to see simple logic, I just stop responding. This has always been the best option for my mental health. Oops I didn’t realise this is quite an old post!

Tehanu was my favourite and it’s so good and so different from the previous books.