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Cake day: July 28th, 2024
  • You@feddit.orgOPtoSuperbowl@lemmy.world•Arena Burgruine - Arena Castle Ruins
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    17 hours ago

    I’ve occasionally looked at the French community weekly thread when pseudo mentions something about superbowl and it seemed similar, just about 4 or 5 people just saying one sentence. I guess a lot of you are used to communicating online only in English?

    My home instance is feddit.org and it depends on the community. Some posts in bigger communities draw a lot of attention, others have barely an upvote. Admins/Mods are volunteers with limited time and had to place some boundaries. One main rule is that only English and German should be used. Most people are from German speaking countries and it’s expected that they at least are able to read and understand English. While some of our communities favour English most posts and comments are indeed in German.

    I found a new online multilanguage dictionary that seems great at listing owl names in other languages to help me find new international content that been yielding good results,

    Do you mind sharing? While I have a mild interest in languages, I have a (language teacher) friend who is very much into birding and plants. Including learning the Latin names. She would be thrilled to find such a tool.

    My family is Pennsylvania Dutch, and my grandparents could speak their language and I got to see them do business with the Amish people here, and it felt so alien to see them speaking a whole other language when we can’t.

    In Germany it’s kind of similar with strong local dialects. Frisian and “Plattdüütsch” seem to have fallen out of favour with time. A lot of younger people simply haven’t learned to speak them.

    We do have the difficulty making smalltalk other than grumbling, so we did inherit that!

    We will get along just great! 😁

    I have been surprised over the years to see more of the commentors here are women than I expected. Probably not an equal portion of overall subscribers, but as far as people that actually leave comments, it might be fairly close. I’m always curious what our overall demographics are.

    A lot of women simply don’t disclose being female. Women experience a great deal of harrassment on the internet when they are recognizable as women. Compared to men they are attacked with a higher frequency and a level of hatred that most men never experience.

    It’s a good sign that women feel save enough to be so open.

    Oh, that looks so cute!

    No time for better pictures. It’s been grumpy enough.

  • You@feddit.orgOPtoSuperbowl@lemmy.world•Arena Burgruine - Arena Castle Ruins
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    2 days ago

    The slowness is a little better now that I know it isn’t me.

    It definitely isn’t you! There are so many reasons we don’t know or don’t think of that might lead to less interaction. For example: I know a few people who observe lent for spiritual reasons. And social media consumption now often is part of things they avoid during lent.

    We just don’t have a large enough userbase to even out whatever causes the slump for a lot of people here.

    One reason I’m still on Reddit. It allows me to drop hints about the Fediverse and Lemmy on occasion. I know they will f’up even more in the future. Hopefully this will bring some friendly people to this side of the internet.

    I do wish we had a more passionate commenting culture by now. Or at least some more on fun topics. I know people are still here, because they’re all over the grumpy news and politics threads! 😅

    Even the Germans here aren’t reliable. They might not be good at smalltalk and fun conversations (speaking of cultural differences) but usually you can count on them to give their opinion - even if you didn’t ask for it 😅 Well, the grumpy news and politics threads are their natural habitat in a way. Germans are World Champion Complainers.

    I don’t know if I want that particular crowd in here,

    Oopsi 👀

    but there’s always people saying they want politic and US news free spaces, but I like to think we have something for everyone here and very minimal politics, so where are they at?!

    We need to drop proverbial breadcrumps to lead them here… only half joking. I feel that the focus of people in the fediverse is on IT, data security, and politics (of course).

    There’s been a poll in one of the German communities and it’s interesting to see who frequents and especially interacts with the community. It’s biased of course, I don’t expect that many people to answer questions in a poll who only lurk and don’t interact.

    Mostly men, IT, often gratuated university, socially “conscious” - meaning more left leaning in their political views, aware of social issues, inclusive.

    I’m still having fun, but I post here to interact with you all.

    And you’re creating a very friendly, informative, and welcoming group. You can only lay the foundations and you did a good job. I enjoy it.

    I’m excited to be going back to the animals. Still waiting for my rabies titer so I can handle those animals, so hopefully that comes soon so I can hold raccoons and foxes. Also still need to finalize some ideas for my owl station at open house.

    I do believe that. I’d be looking forward to that too! There’s almost no rabies left in Germany. The only wild animals that occasionally can spread it are bats. Like the bat from the rabies copypaste. So of course that’s the one animal I found two weeks ago when we still had snow outside. Poor thing was on the ground in broad daylight and I only registered it because it was screaming at the dog and me. I brought in into the garage (yes, wearing protective gloves) to give it some shelter and that led to me learning more about bats and who to contact. The little critter, a common pipistrelle, is fine. Warming up (though not to me 😁) did help.

    I got diagnosed with pretty bad sleep apnea in January. I was falling asleep at work and getting scarily tired while driving, and I just haven’t had much energy

    So good to hear you got diagnosed! That’s the first step though it must have been scary - especially becoming so tired while driving. Hopefully it will soon work out and you get your energy back!

    Well, I didn’t mean to talk so much, but no one else is listening,

    Don’t underestimate how many people might actually be reading your comments :)

    so apologies on taking it all out on you! 😇

    No need to apologise! It’s nice to not follow my tendencies to doomscroll and actually communicate with a person about real life stuff.

  • You@feddit.orgOPtoSuperbowl@lemmy.world•Arena Burgruine - Arena Castle Ruins
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    3 days ago

    I always get bummed sharing something I think is awesome and it feels like nobody sees it. I get so bored posting all this stuff and nobody comments.

    It seems people are also busy around this time of year. Please, don’t feel sad - we appreciate your work! Unfortunately there seem to be a lot of lurkers who avoid posting/commenting. And even up- and downvotes seem to be worse on Lemmy. I guess people tend to shy away from it, when they realise that some other people can find out who voted and how.

    I’m back in action on the 15th to get a head start before the new volunteers come in April.

    That’s great! I bet they love having you there. Still owlthusiastic and coming with so much knOWLedge.

  • You@feddit.orgtoich_iel@feddit.org•ich_iel
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    3 days ago

    Ich glaub es Dir. Aber der innere Schweinehund will noch nicht. Dazu fehlen echt viel Grammatik und Vokabeln. Aber auf Arte haben englische Versionen oft französische Untertitel “eingebacken”. Da hab ich mich immer gefreut, wenn ich ein paar Worte erkannt hab Ü

  • You@feddit.orgtoich_iel@feddit.org•ich_iel
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    3 days ago

    Dazu reichen die kümmerlichen Reste des Schulfranzösisch nicht. Also zumindest meine nicht.

    Leider bist Du knapp zu spät. Bis Ende Februar war der Film in der Arte Mediathek und die stellen viel im Original (und sowieso französische Fassungen) ein.