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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!
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.
Sleepless American reporting in ✋ West coasters should be around right now at least
Central timezone U.S. I'm up later because it's the weekend.
Sleepless America in full effect!!
West coast’r here!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
We probably need more Indians then to balance out the time zones
OK fam, I just made several posts for ya. One each to !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip , !synthwave@lemmy.world , !gothindustrial@lemmy.world.
Hello from Singapore
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. :)
Some of us keep weird hours, so... 👋
Why does your name show up in red on my app. You’re not the OP. I don’t follow you. Cake day? New accounts have a baby beside them Have we talked before. That’s the only other thought
He's an admin.
Thanks lol
I have irregular hours so you have an equal chance of reaching me no matter the 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.
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.
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 ^^
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
Hello, it's just the middle of the evening on the West Coast of the USA.