It’s when the Americans already went to bed but the Europeans didn’t wake up yet. I’m in South Korea and around lunch even sorting by “New” doesn’t give me any new posts, sometimes up to one hour.
I know it’s a cliche but try posting yourself. That’s the only way places like this grow. I don’t particularly enjoy posting so I try my best to keep conversations flowing and add discussion to posts without much going on. Every little bit helps.
To that end, what’s your favorite thing about South Korea? I don’t really know all that much about it. Are you from there or working there or what?
Yeah it started with work, I was here for a 3 month business trip. But then I met someone here and asked to be sent on another and one more business trip :D But because it was during Covid I had to stay 2 weeks in quarantine every time I went back to Sweden to renew my visa ^^. (see my quarantine vlog: https://tube.jeena.net/w/p/qG3KZrSACw4QvTQ23prqXR )
After in sum 2 months in quarantine I asked them to move me to the Korean office ( see: https://tube.jeena.net/w/uuQegxjHagGpHhXXDMBGJg ) , that was 3 years ago and we have a one year old son by now already ^^.
That’s an adorable story
Aww hell, you made me get all teared up. Congratulations!
Edit: I poked around your Jtube and your baby is adorable!
I love their music 🎵🎶
Greetings from China! I’m not much of a poster though, so admittedly my interactions are by and large restricted to comments.
I’m always browsing Lemmy by /new though (with a well curated block, ban and keyword filter), and the Australians are quite active during those times.
Hm perhaps I’m missing out on some Australian content? Any tiops on communities?
I guess the content from China is mostly in Chinese?
I don’t think there are any actual Chinese communities, at least I’m not active in any. And I’m not actively following anything from Australia either really. I’ve come to terms with the fact that there’s fairly little stuff posted on Lemmy in general, so browsing all (instead of subscriptions) and sorting by new is how I find stuff.
Yeah that makes sense. I’m on a single user instance where subscribed and /all is exactly the same which makes the problem even bigger.
perhaps I’m missing out on some Australian content? Any tiops on communities
There are Australians producing content on all the usual communities. Unless you’re interested specifically in content about Australia or aimed towards other Australians in particular, you’re probably not missing out on anything.
If that is what you want, check the communities hosted on aussie.zone.
do you use VPN to connect from China or you can connect without it?
Some instances are available, so federated content is visible if you’re on one that works. But external links often don’t, and you generally want to hide your online presence even if the sites you visit are not blocked, so I’m using a VPN near 24/7.
I’m surprised the great firewall doesn’t block known blocks of VPN IP addresses.
Impossible, VPN providers rent server space in large data centers, just like any other “legitimate” service. If they were to blacklist entire blocks, they’d shut out a number of services people are, meant to use.
So they’d have to surgically blacklist individual IP addresses - which they do, mind you - but it’s a matter of 3 clicks for the VPN provider to change to any other IP within the data center. And they operate in hundreds of locations globally, so even if one is shut down for good, you got plenty of alternatives.
Sleepless American reporting in ✋ West coasters should be around right now at least
Sleepless America in full effect!!
Central timezone U.S. I’m up later because it’s the weekend.
West coast’r here!
Be the change you want to see. On Lemmy, it actually matters to the entire community what you do. If you post a few things every day, other people in the same area will see some activity. :)
no OP but I really try to post something interesting or not interesting but I at least post and comment whenever I can :)
Nah mate this is the best time of the day to comment. All the shit we say becomes what they open their eyes to in the morning.
Please continue to eradicate my understanding of society. I prefer to wake up confused. 😆
I never sleep and I’m always on Lemmy. But I comment and don’t usually make posts. 🤷🏻♂️
Same dude. But you make me look like a God damned casual 😅
Someone needs to make a leaderboard for the most active Lemmy users, that’d be really entertaining
I have irregular hours so you have an equal chance of reaching me no matter the time.
Hi Jeena! What instances are on your federation lists for jemmy.jeena.net? What “languages” are selected for the federation/your profile? There’s a few active instances at this time, but does depend on if you’re subscribed to them, and the languages they send (and your instance accepts).
So I only browse my subscribed ones which are all in English, German, Polish and Swedish. On the Korean one it looks like I’m the only one posting there ^^
Check your settings for https://jemmy.jeena.net/admin. Is Private instance checked? (Probably shouldn’t be). IS federation enabled checked (It should be) Anything listed in allowed instances? What about blocked instances? Languages should have everything listed, including
Undetermined.No worries technically everything works with my instance, I’m just subscribed to communities which don’t post much around my lunch time.
I’ve found commenting later than the first batch of commenters isn’t as much a problem here are it was on Reddit. You’ll still get votes and replies.
Hello from Singapore
Hmmh, your post shows 04:50 in the morning. That’s definitely a time even the insomniacs would be asleep in Europe.
It’s a bit better for us. When I go to bed, the Americans from the east start to come home from work. (And there is a good amount of Germans here on Lemmy.)
I have a sleep disorder so I’m always awake through the night. For me I kinda appreciate that it makes it easier to stop scrolling, cause there’s not anything new showing up and I’ve already seen the posts for the day :)
I can see how it’d be lonely though. Perhaps I’m used to it cause my sleep disorder is isolating whether I’m using lemmy or not
I hope you have a lovely day today :)
Do you sleep in the day, or is it just hard to get any at all?
I realize now my wording was unclear 😅. The former. I go to bed around 9am-12pm right now, and wake up around 7pm-9pm.
I have a very weird schedule, but I do sleep. It’s isolating because my daytime seldom overlaps that of others, if I never slept at all I’d have TONS of time to spend with folks
Ah, yeah I could see how that could be a challenge. Hopefully you can at least talk to people in the morning or before they go to bed.
I do, it’s always nice getting to say good morning to folks as I’m on my way to bed. And sometimes I end up skipping sleep in order to do something that requires I be awake during normal hours (like doctor’s appointments, my friends wedding) and its always nice to hang out with folks on those days ☺️
I’m grateful my friends also often stay up later than they normally would to hang out, and I often try to wake early for social time :)
wait so you don’t sleep at night at all? I can’t even function properly I don’t get enough sleep at night.
I realize now my wording was unclear 😅 I go to bed around 9am-12pm right now, and wake up around 7pm-9pm.
I have a very weird schedule, but I do sleep. It’s isolating because my daytime seldom overlaps that of others, if I never slept at all I’d have TONS of time to spend with folks
And hello from Europe (sweden)! I visited Korea last year and whilst I wasn’t using Lemmy then those time difference really made it hard to talk to anyone who happened to find them self in Europe.
And for a solution to the problem, maybe there are some Korean communities with a bit more activity during that time?
Nope from what I know there is only one Korean instance with one community and I am practically the only one posting to it ^^
at least you got one. there is no Indian instance. It would be full of shit anyway so I really don’t care but still I want it to exist.
Doooo it! Make an Indian instance!
I live on the east coast of the US and everything is in German when I wake up…
Yeah… lots of “ich bin” on a typical morning for me.
I wish that Lemmy, or my app, had a translate options. I’m interested in the rest of the world, but I’m a product of the US education system so I only speak one language.
Agreed. It would be a very unique lemmy client feature to have! At the moment, I use lemmy almost entirely on my phone, so I’m able take a partial screenshot and have my phone translate the screenshot in its place. But I will admit, it’s still quite inconvenient.
Hi Jeena, I’m visiting South Korea right now and also noticed the drought around that time. How can we get more Koreans to use Lemmy, I wonder?
Probably by creating good content on Lemmy in Korean and linking to it from where the Koreans normally are ^^
Someone needs to make a Korean instance, like the German one and other ones.
there’s lemmy.funami.tech iirc
Yeah exactly, that is where I’m posting. But it’s very empty and I have no idea about the admin who he/she is and why they host it.
