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I'm up for a chat. Where you from?
I’m in Sarasota Florida
Lafayette Louisiana here. I just think because it's such a techie group it tends to have a lot of introverts. Me included.
What got my sucked into Lemmy admittedly is the federation nature, which I'm new to. The reddit events was the push I needed to commit to setting up my own instance!
I assume you joined also because of the reddit stuff?
Louisiana crew! I'm from Shreveport, but I live in Colorado now. My ex wife is from Lafayette. Been there a few times.
I lived in Denver for 4 years while I'm the military. Strange coincidence!
I want to get back to CO! I’m stuck in FL hell because of uncontrollable circumstances
Eww, I do not envy you. Never been to FL, but I also have no desire to go whatsoever.
I’ve been trying to get out for so long, it’s become a joke
How long have you been there? I left LA the first time when I was 17 for 10 years (military). Then came home for about 8 and left again for here and I don't think I'm going anywhere.
Since the 1980s lol. I said BACK to CO only because I spent a summer in Estes Park, and always imagined I’d come back to live out there
Oh wow. I would highly recommend it. I love Colorado. I was hesitant to come, but I can't imagine living in the South again. Mostly the politics and racism. I'm half Korean and I just never felt accepted in the south. Always felt out of place.
These are the reasons!
Lol, yeah probably a common complaint.
I see the politics getting more progressive out there, but I remember it being different way back. I need to get my head out of the 90s
How progressive CO is is one of the main things I love about it. We have an openly gay governor and he's always doing things to help us out. There's definitely pockets of far right. I see trump and maga stickers all the time, but I've yet to encounter any actual racism directed at me. It happened nearly every day back in LA.
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Yeah man, feel free to hit me up if you get to!
Yes, I was an Apollo user since forever. I won’t run Reddit app, and they kept suspending me for no reason all the time. Such bs, what app actively chases out contributors? So I ended up here. I just need somewhere to find my curated content and discuss the things I have questions about
Lemmy is awesome, but I wish everything was encrypted. I understand that with federation it’s a bit pointless in theory, but it would improve a few aspects imo.
Yeah pros and cons for sure. Im loving Lemmy. I'm still waiting for the perfect android app for it though. Every one that exists is missing usually one or two key features.
I came from Apollo on iOS, so Voyager is scratching the itch for me, almost completely.
I like discussing stuff. I’m a student of cryptography from way back, who got involved in cryptocurrency later in life. I find lemmy to be pretty anti-crypto. People have said this is because lemmings are left-leaning and so therefore don’t like crypto, but this flies in the face of all the norms I know as an old guy who worked through these industries from the 1980s (technology, computing, programming and cryptography). This is another thing I miss from the-social-network-which-shall-not-be-named - an active bitcoin community
I'm not against crypto. I even did some mining a couple years ago but it just wasn't worth it for me. I think a lot of the anti-crypto talk is because it was heralded as the next coming of christ of currency and it just...wasn't. It never took off mainstream and now the hype has blown over. Also, crypto's value has tanked across the board leading many to look at it as a failure. Similar with NFTs. They could have had many good uses but scammers took hold pretty quickly and now it's just a joke. I don't think the current state of crypto is gonna make it. I do think it could reemerge as something more mainstream in the future. It's just not ready in its current iteration.
It’s such a deep and controversial subject. I’ve never tried mining. There are some simple use cases, like tipping creators on social media, that don’t require a person to close all their bank accounts and convert all their dollars to bitcoins, but people take any talk of innovation in the space as a demand that they change their philosophy of money, so to me, the anti-crypto crowd seems reactionary and toxic.
Yeah, I can see that. I mean, it's really most change in things. The vast majority of people hate change and react extremely about everything.
I remember before www, before aol, so when I was the first person going online in my friend group, everyone thought I was a lunatic. imo, crypto is the same. In a decade it will be ubiquitous and nobody will care what anyone’s opinion of it was in 2023
Yeah that's probably true. I'm an elder millennial and I grew up without and with the internet. But that's how it is with most things really. The world moves on and opinions are lost in time. Hell most people convince themselves they supported whatever it is all along.
I don't know if I believe that crypto will be ubiquitous in a decade unless it starts to gain mainstream traction soon, but I can see something in that space.
I believe it will be ubiquitous, but happening in the background. People won’t be like, “hey what’s your bitcoin address dude, I want to send you .000000054”. It will be more like the sauce that powers a payment app like Venmo, but hidden in the background, making settlement cheap for the provider. The Strike app already does similar, and if a big cc company sees the light and tries using crypto settlements to square accounts, they will save billions on settlement charges. THAT’S where it will be used by everyone, they just won’t know they are using it
Ah yeah that makes sense. You may be right then. I can see that happening.
So the /r/bitcoin sub was decent. The /r/cryptocurrency sub went very toxic. I would put a lot of effort into it here if there were even a budding bitcoin community here, but it’s all crickets. I want to help educate people that bitcoin is both more and not what they think
Well more power to ya. I hope the community gets bigger for that. I've pretty much wrote it off at this point, for my personal use I mean. I still try to keep an eye on what's going on, but I'm just not interested anymore until something big happens.
Oh neat, I'm over in St Pete. Hey neighbor o/
Hey! I come up for concerts whenever I can
That's awesome! I haven't been to any in the area yet. What kind of music you like?
Positive
Last show I saw was at Jannus Live
Oh I think I've walked by there, it's next to that bar with the rooftop patio right? Who'd you see?
Michael Franti. Poured down rain on us
Edit-i think so yes, about the next door rooftop patio
I like him, didn't know he was in town. Sucks that it rained but at least there was rain lol, my plants are only barely recovering from the drought. Much better than earlier this year but still pretty dang dry.
It was last year. October or November I think. It’s so nice to stay at the hotel directly across the street from the venue so you can just stumble over there after the show and hit the rooftop pool. Great time
That does sound fun. I used to live real close to downtown, within staggering distance, though sadly I'm a bit too far west for that now.
It sure beats the way I did it in the 80s and 90s, which was: get ripped on the drive up to Jannus (it was called Jannus Landing back then), drink red stripes for 6 hours while puffing the occasional random joint that went by, then driving the 40 or so miles back to Sarasota with one eye closed
Lmao you're not wrong, though I'm surprised you're still alive - and a little impressed. You've been around here a while, what do you think of the area now compared to then? I haven't been here long.
I don’t want to be that guy, but it’s a completely different place now because of the changes in: attitudes, increasing population, rising costs, transplants from everywhere sort of diluting the og laid-back lifestyle, too many go getter CEOs and shit. Most people didn’t like unnecessary development back then and resisted it, but now development is out of control. Same problems as everywhere, I guess. This part of FL used to be a bit of a secret, so we never had crowds back then in Sarasota, and St. Pete was developed, but sleepy. Different in every way
Yeah, I know I'm really in no place to complain considering I'm a transplant too, but even in just the few years I've been here I've seen the changes. Apartments where there used to be a neighborhood, down to earth local businesses closing to make way for generic northeast-esque city stuff. I moved here with my family when I was still in high school, and I like it, but I'm pretty settled on leaving before I settle down here permanently. Hard to say where to though.
I mean, it’s happening anywhere there are tourist attractions. People come for a visit to FL, go back to New Jersey or wherever and look around and ask themselves what the hell they’re doing there, sell the farm and move down. At a rate of 1000 per day
Now that I've lived near the ocean for a few years I think I'd be pretty bummed living somewhere away from the coast, but it seems like everyone's realizing how nice it is lol. At this point I'm not opposed to leaving the US if all the chill places with low cost of living keep disappearing here.
I need to get up at like four tomorrow so I'm gonna smoke a bit and try to get some sleep, gnight man!
Peace. Thanks for the chat