Context: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37167077
I’m sure we’ve all seen db0’s post on fediverse about the success of linking c/piracy to r/piracy; and due to the ongoing reddit exodus, there is an opportunity:
What if we talk to the reddit mods of equivalent communities, and ask them to link to the lemmy version? It seems it could be a great success. I’ve even made a post for these new users: https://lemm.ee/post/54814946 and the mods, to explain in as short time as i can how to get completely set for the threadiverse.
For me, it’s not even the possibility of negative responses. I could be 100% guaranteed to get a positive response, and I’d still hesitate to reach out.
Once people step into the topic, I’m bold as can be, but God, something deep and anxious in me regards bringing subjects up as an unforgivable interruption of someone else’s life.
Ditto. I thought about contacting r/linguistics and r/asklinguistics mods; if they showed desire to migrate their subreddits to Lemmy, I’d gladly help them out. But there are a thousand ways that this could be interpreted wrong, and I get really anxious thinking on them.
You know what broke me of all phone anxiety? I spent the last eight years at a job where I frequently have to call hospital billing departments, and for eight years they have consistently been inventing new ways to disappoint me.
So now I have the ability to not only sound quite confident speaking with strangers on the phone, I can also handle flat rejection and the most weaponized stupidity ever recorded for quality assurance.
I’m a broken, once-proud introvert who never wanted to leave calm, concise voice mails or get back to people.
This is poetry.
It’s the most striking thing. When you speak with a hospital billing representative who is constantly being recorded, timed, and censored - not to mention mistreated by the most disturbing examples of god’s handiwork on a daily basis, it is like communion with a ghost, a crossing of the veil with a shade rendered insensate by the shackles of infinity. Stripped of all memory, feeling, and mentation, they routinely repeat themselves and forget nearly everything you tell them.
They will terrorise you with outdated information, demand months or longer to respond to any request, transfer you to someone even more psychically hollow, and fail entirely to read or write any notes from your previous calls from the last six weeks.
I wish that instead of a VOIP client, my phone was designed by Egon Spengler to entrap such nightmares. They would be better looked after in an ecto-containment unit by my desk, I think.
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I do complain magnificently at times, but I’ve never managed to make it my job. If I did, I’d run out of relatable material too quickly.
It’s okay to complain as a hobby. We’re allowed to be good at things without monetizing them. For now, anyway.
I’ve sent them all, wish me luck 🤞
Yeah same, but i focus on more of the negative aspect. Though it’s comforting knowing there are people behind me so it’s not me cold calling alone lmao
It’s a valuable contribution to the community. One to one connections are the backbone of any larger social fabric.
Ive beent trying to keep my type of interests on fedi alive,from languages to video games this’ll help me a great deal if ithey accept