thegiddystitcher

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

Ngl that damn streak took over my life at one point, I was over 1000 days and climbing. Decided one day to just...let it go on purpose. To no longer be caged by the tyranny of the owl.

Highly recommend it, the sense of freedom is unreal.

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

Kept it going for a while, making sure to take a day off once a month to avoid building another stressful streak. But I kinda got to the end of its usefulness and wandered off to other things.

Just started learning Spanish and I thought about firing it up again but the app is such a mess these days I actually can't face it.

Edit: Remember getting rid of the streak doesn't actually lose your "progress" in learning the language, which is presumably the important part. It's just a meaningless number. You can do it!

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

Exactly!

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

It probably depends on which language you're learning and whether there's a good deck available but I've moved onto flashcards with Anki.

The main problem with Duo (before all of its current problems) used to be that it didn't really give much context unless you were on the full website and clicked through to read the grammar rules, but the card deck I'm using for basic Spanish has all of that built in and visible from the start so it's been a good foundation on the language.

I've also heard excellent things about something called the "pimsleur" method but that seems expensive to access through official means. I'm sure there are other ways to try it out, of course...

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

Indeed.

A selection of Lemmy app icons

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

Me too :(

I moved to Raccoon which I'm hopeful will eventually have all my fave features from other apps but we'll see.

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

You've had some well-meaning but ultimately not quite accurate answers in this thread so just to clarify:

You can follow, post to and interact with Lemmy communities from Mastodon, because they're treated the same way as a "group" on Mastodon in general.

You can NOT follow and interact with Mastodon users from Lemmy, because Mastodon accounts are individual "users" and Lemmy doesn't have the concept of following and interacting with users, only with communities. If Lemmy ever does add a feature to let us follow other users, then in theory following Mastodon users will also become possible.

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

That's my main concern. Seeing content from other platforms in my Mastodon feed is pretty great right now (Lemmy, PeerTube etc). But hashtag feeds could quickly get overrun by something like this if it works the same way.

That said, making this its own thing instead of building a "reels" for Pixelfed suggests the dev already knows separation will be important, so 🤞

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

I gotchu https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/781131000/snarky-cross-stitch-oh-sht-the-economy-x

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

!lemmy_stitch awaits 😉

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

Any affiliation with FediVision or is this a whole separate contest? If so you might need rules about whether people can submit songs to both!

I'm in for following this either way though, Eurovision fiend that I am.

thegiddystitcher , 3 months ago

Ohhhh! Ok I getcha, I read it as being songs by Lemmy users, that was just my brain filling in the blanks I think. Yeah, completely different thing, ignore me 😅

thegiddystitcher , 5 months ago

Curse seasonal colour analysis and all of its surprising accuracy! I don't want to be a bright spring, I want to be goth!

You live your best life in that blue dress kid and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

thegiddystitcher , 5 months ago

Pretty much my strategy so far

thegiddystitcher , 11 months ago

What does "saving" a song even mean? I'm old and confused

thegiddystitcher , 1 year ago

Kids these days, amirite...