We can just build a culture of downvoting puns (and my axe!)

Snopes link

Hinder as in opposite of aid

If only this study came out earlier. Maybe they could have caught the early signs in my youth.

I can only hope I'll be so lucky.

I only watched the first one and for some reason assumed the sequel was the end. How naïve of me.

Lemmy is still pretty meager, but it might grow further

I think it's inevitable. It may be just a slow steady trickle from here on but I wouldn't be surprised to see another change bring over another mass exodus (does old.reddit.com still work?).

What seems clear to me is that Lemmy has a lot of users that actively don't want to attract the full Reddit crowd,

I think this largely depends on what you mean by this. Reddit as an experience had gradually gone downhill for many years. Momentum and habit kept me there despite that. But when I could no longer use my app the habit was broken and the content wasn't really worth it on its own.

And either way, even users who actively feel more strongly about "redditors" I don't think they really have a say either way if they decide to come over.

I guess by that metric I've relapsed a few times. But just look at how much I'm on Lemmy. That's a lot of engagement and content that reddit used to be getting that they're now not and surely that's more valuable of a loss.

I find it really interesting how the "-gate" suffix came to be regularly used.

I posted a couple WIP snippets elsewhere in the thread.

Snippet 1

Snippet 2

Thank you for your interest!

I've been clean for over a year 🥉

No the drums I actually just sampled a classic break just to get a rhythm. I'd probably replace or chop and manipulate it more though since for the first one since they're basically dry (though many people release tracks like that). The second one I chopped and stretched so much that all you hear actually came from a drum break. But with the "groove" the other sounds were synthesized and played by me. I also had an electric bass track but I wasn't happy with the mix (and I still need more practice).

I don't really share my stuff so thank you for taking the time to listen and for being kind.

Oh and Dorian is a mode. Basically a key/scale. Not a major or minor key but kind of something in-between? You can tell I've put more time into production/fx than music theory but I'm working on it.

The artwork was very low effort because I did it at a moment before commenting lol. More an essance of what my bs would look like. Sound is my passion and I put I've put way more time into it. Though I'm still very amateurish. The linked snippet was just something I did this week to practice dorian and some other things. It's not something I've worked on long and would release. And yes drugs are an influence in my work despite the style.

It also doesn't fit OP but some other stuff I have bounced to my phone might.

This one for example. It could be on an EP with the OP art

That sounds interesting and not what I was expecting.

Regarding the artwork, do you think you'd be more likely to check out new music with artwork of the original post or more something like this?:

Edit: this was just a quick doodle on an already burned page but now I'm thinking about what it would sound like 🤔 It does not sound like this.

Someone is going to say the same way a flesh artist does. But I think it's more than synthesis of what a person sees, its their lived experience

Thank you (I guess?). I've seen some musicians get backlash, but at the same time physical releases are a far far off concept for me so maybe digital only makes it less of a faux pas?

I don't know why I'm pondering this as if it matters.

Nobody knows who the fuck I am lol. Even people in real life don't know where I post my stuff.

Tbh I've had plenty of fun with that too

Edit: downvoted why? Think I'm hypocritical? Or should it be nsfw?

Make lots of sweet love

"Si, jajaja, si!" 😂

I'm not familiar with the dungeon synth genre but I'll look into it. I'm exploring a lot of sounds still but some of my stuff is definitely dark/abrasive.