UK answer: city 100% no question.

Being able to actually get places and do things and have people to do those things with, I don’t even know how a small town could ever compare. Grew up in one, currently living in another one, both crap.

For the Mastodon users among us, obligatory plug https://streetpass.social

Thank you for experiencing this so the rest of us don’t have to.

!nowhereelsetoshare@sh.itjust.works is for exactly this!

If you’re the first person from your instance to subscribe to that community, you’ll only see new posts. If there is a particular post or comment you want to reply to, though, you can grab the URL and put it into your instance’s search box to sort of force it to federate across.

Rock and stone, my friend ⛏

Shoutout to !raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world for saving us when Liftoff went under.

Reposting from a couple days ago:

I’m legally obliged to shill the various crafting communities, my two most used are !knitting@lemmy.world and !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works but you can find lots more in the sticky thread in either of those.

Then there’s also !imadethis@lemm.ee which has been a bit quiet lately so if you’ve made something, go show it off!

• !ukcasual@lemmy.world
• !simpleliving@lemmy.ml and !simpleliving@lemm.ee
• !discworld@lemmy.ml
• !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
• !anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
• !artshare@lemmy.world
• !pixelart@lemmy.ml
• !zillowgonewild@midwest.social
• !solarpunk@slrpnk.net and !technology@slrpnk.net (actually pretty much anything on slrpnk.net)
• !rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
• !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and !patientgamers@lemmy.ml
• !mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !potatoism@lemmy.world
• !crossview@lemmy.world and !parallelview@sh.itjust.works
• !radiolemmy@lemm.ee

Sparrow is staying with us this week and she’s making it extremely difficult to Lemmy right now

Also been taking quite the interest in my knitting (as well as favourite pastime, leaving soggy bits of carrot all over the floor)

Admittedly I only got into them because of Eurovision, but man I have been listening to so much Lord of the Lost. Somehow hadn’t thought to look at any of their videos though! This was…eye opening 😆

Multiple cinema tickets for the same film? What am I, made of money?

Whining and whinging are definitely not the same thing, but I’m struggling to articulate why. Just something British (and I guess Australian, judging by this thread) folks grow up with and intuitively understand.

It’s the most technologically lacking sporting event with the most clueless commentators who don’t even know the rules. But it’s wholesome af regardless.

Well I’ve spent the last three days thoroughly entranced by the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship, which it turns out is a thing. So idk, maybe that?

It takes a bit of practise to get over the awkwardness. But it’s totally worth it.

Yeah pretty much

We actually tried this! Tried to get her to say “Good luck with your lamps” as the reply because we’re British and terminally sarcastic like that, but ofc she doesn’t really do tone so it was underwhelming.

We turned it off and went back to the old fashioned way 😂

I am a bit like you in that I do spend a lot of time replying to people who leave comments on my post…they took the time to read and reply so I figure it’s just polite to respond. But also it’s nice talking to people, you know? Never know when some innocuous reply you make will kick off a whole deeper conversation.

PLUS on a platform like Lemmy it also has the advantage that more comments = more visible in feeds = more replies from more people.

All that said, you do have to prioritise. Nobody’s thinking you’re rude if you just edit your post or make one comment saying “thanks for the input everyone, sorry I can’t reply to you all individually but I appreciate the advice” or whatever. We’re all busy, and most people probably don’t expect a personal reply anyway. Maybe start thinking of upvoting and making a universal reply as the baseline, and doing individual replies just as a stretch goal when you have the time spare.

Every night when we go to bed, whoever gets up and leaves the living room first gets to wish the other one “good luck with the lamps!”. As in, turning off the lights. I have no idea why it started but it’s been going on for years and years.

If we’re watching a TV show and the last episode of the night is ending the whole atmosphere changes, we get super tense and both start trying to get ready to go without the other noticing and then we’ll spring up and run for the door to be the one who doesn’t have to have good luck with the lamps. If we were lying snuggling together on the couch, we’ll literally wrestle to be first one up. I got him a custom printed mug with it on, and our first lamp is like our relationship mascot. It’s just a whole thing.

We are middle-aged marrieds.

I expect one day, hopefully far in the future, as one of us peacefully passes away while the other holds their hand and gazes tearfully into their eyes, regardless of which of us it is their last words will be “good luck with the lamps”.

When someone sees you at your worst and your most vulnerable, and they can not only handle it but (this part is very important) they don’t then use it as ammo against you down the line, you know they’re a keeper.