“Normal” social media tends to deteriorate my mental health rather quickly. Whether it’s the infinite scroll or types of posts there or both, it generally sucks. I saw the link to this instance in a youtube video a while back (i can’t for the life of me remember which video, it might’ve been simpleflips? idk) and decided to check it out. The smaller user base, control over my feed, lack of advertisements, and a more human-friendly UI make lemmy much more pleasant to use, and easier to regulate how much I end up browsing. The smaller quantity of posts and comments can be a bit of a let down sometimes but that just gives me more incentive to post and interact since it won’t get lost in the void too. Overall it’s just a more pleasant experience. Being federated means it’s a bit more bulletproof so-to-speak than something like cohost was (I miss that site); if blahaj ever shuts down I can move to another instance and still get to use lemmy which is nice. As for matrix, I haven’t tried it yet.

almost fnaf-jumpscare-esque

I think you need to go to a therapist

wait really? thank you!

I wrote a small bash script to curl the latest .deb, install it, and delete it because i was having this problem too. shame it can’t just auto-update or let me use the old version