So, I’m easily distracted by things that float in the air. Nothing alters my view of reality more than a thing that doesn’t fall to the floor when I let go of it. Realistic things like bubbles, magnets, and astronauts, but also fantasy characters and environments. These things remind me of the feeling of floating I get when swimming in a pool, playing with a balloon, or flying around like a ghost in my dreams. I would totally befriend a poltergeist if fun physically impossible things could happen around me. I want to collect these things and learn more about myself through them.
I couldn’t find any communities of likeminded airheads, so I created one myself on Reddit. Over the past two years, We’ve accumulated 400+ posts of content from several art and video communities into one well-tagged and categorized archive. I want this collection to outlive Reddit.
When the whole Reddit API crisis started, there was a movement of “You own your Reddit contributions, use scripts to download everything and then delete it from Reddit.” I don’t see a need to wipe out the original subreddit, but if Reddit is going to destroy itself, the collection needs to live on on Reddit’s successors. After all, I never got to post some of the best floaty stuff I have.
Now, I thought I could quietly create a Kbin magazine and manually repost all 400+ Reddit posts before I attract any attention. Then, sometime in early August, I’d announce that we’ve moved to Kbin and all new posts will go here. Well, it turns out Kbin has this time zone bug, and as soon as one Lemmy instance federated with my community, it blew up! Now we’re like an airship that broke free from its mooring lines before it was ready to launch. Now I can’t just repost things as fast as I can because it will spam up the /all feeds for Lemmy users like you.
Lol. I was definitely close to blocking you/that community. Why is there so much Floating is Fun Content? Why is that even a sub/community?
Plus that one picture of all the rubber duckies in the bathroom (“poltergeist”, I think), hardly counts as floating imo. Lol jk
So, I’m easily distracted by things that float in the air. Nothing alters my view of reality more than a thing that doesn’t fall to the floor when I let go of it. Realistic things like bubbles, magnets, and astronauts, but also fantasy characters and environments. These things remind me of the feeling of floating I get when swimming in a pool, playing with a balloon, or flying around like a ghost in my dreams. I would totally befriend a poltergeist if fun physically impossible things could happen around me. I want to collect these things and learn more about myself through them.
I couldn’t find any communities of likeminded airheads, so I created one myself on Reddit. Over the past two years, We’ve accumulated 400+ posts of content from several art and video communities into one well-tagged and categorized archive. I want this collection to outlive Reddit.
When the whole Reddit API crisis started, there was a movement of “You own your Reddit contributions, use scripts to download everything and then delete it from Reddit.” I don’t see a need to wipe out the original subreddit, but if Reddit is going to destroy itself, the collection needs to live on on Reddit’s successors. After all, I never got to post some of the best floaty stuff I have.
Now, I thought I could quietly create a Kbin magazine and manually repost all 400+ Reddit posts before I attract any attention. Then, sometime in early August, I’d announce that we’ve moved to Kbin and all new posts will go here. Well, it turns out Kbin has this time zone bug, and as soon as one Lemmy instance federated with my community, it blew up! Now we’re like an airship that broke free from its mooring lines before it was ready to launch. Now I can’t just repost things as fast as I can because it will spam up the /all feeds for Lemmy users like you.
Thanks for the thoughtful response. TBH your community was slowly growing on me and now I have a better understanding of your community. Thanks!