Yep.
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Lemmy is actually better on this. I get a lot of upvotes for well thought-out long posts and comments here as well as humorous one-liners. I've been pleasantly surprised that people actually take the time to read out my longer posts. On reddit it'd probably just get lost and be another 1 thumber that never got read.
The key is also to make your story interesting. Something that pulls your reader in. Be personal and amicable. Realize you're talking to real people and speak to those people in your writing. I'm more of a creative writing buff. I managed to eek out 98th percentile for creative writing in my SATs. I love writing. Its my favorite thing to do. I want to be an author. I fucking hate my ADHD. I've started a hundred books at least and either bore myself or tell myself its a stupid plot, even though I have friends and family begging for me to finish something.
My early books were written in small notebooks. The old ones that sorta looked like they had cowprint covers with a title on them. They'd get passed around the school for weeks. I'd get them back and people would keep asking me to continue. I never did. Fuck me, I hate ADHD sometimes. But your words are alive. They can heal, hurt, cause laughter and tears, and, above all, words can influence anything. Words are power and, as long as you are careful of that power, you can write any damn length you want.
Honestly, my fear now is AI. I like AI, but I don't want to write a book and have people claim its AI or AI assisted. I'm regretting not writing one earlier now.
tl;dr: Is k. Writ stuf.
This
"I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one."
i wanna say Mark Twain said that, but I'm not 100%
I thought it was Victor Hugo but apparently it was Blaise Pascal
It's a similar story with editing videos. Paring a video back is where most of the time goes.
Jane Austen I thought
Steve Austin?
Reddit? Nah that's literally every platform.
When you're 20 minutes into an argument on reddit and suddenly get permanently IP banned for saying something that didn't even break rules
The net is far more ban happy than it used to, it's gotten to the point that I don't feel safe using Steam Forums.
fr man
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Someone gave some advice on a forum or a blog or something a long time ago that really stuck with me and completely altered my outlook about social media and interacting with people via the internet in general:
Before you hit "send", ask yourself whether this is for your benefit, or that of those who will see it.
I basically stopped using socials after that, because I seldom thought of anything that followed this rule, and my feed was so full of garbage from people who also didn't, but saw fit to post it anyway. The internet has given society an ego masturbation problem.
If I was the owner of Reddit, i would 100% save in-progress comments, and keep the unsent ones in the database for my enjoyment.
If I was the owner of Reddit, i would 100% save in-progress comments, and [...]
sell the data to AI companies
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Sometimes I just delete it, sometimes I go ahead and post it and hope nobody responds.
You could open a second account and agree with whatever you wrote.
Or disagree with myself. That would be more interesting. Abusive sock puppeting.
Happens on this platform too
I've written paragraphs and paragraphs about how calling someone stupid is not ad hominem. I've gone 20 comments into a thread trying to explain how analogies work. I'm currently in several arguments about the fact that water is, indeed, wet.
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"and suddenly you remember most readers of your comment will be bots"
And the few humans there will go "I ain't reading all that"
Sometimes multiple times in a row.
Sometimes on the same post.
Hello ADHDers! It really is a health management skill to catch yourself and pull away. The worst is when you do care about the topic and you know you're mismanaging your time, it doesn't actually matter, but you can't not "finish it so at least it's out there"
Yup. I do this 100%. But mostly it's because sometimes I get so hot on the subject, it feels good to get it out there and then I worry I was too brash about it. A trick I use is to leave the comment written on my phone in the background. Maybe I'll send it, but more often than not I clear it out when I clean up my background apps and go, "Well, that was decided for me."
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I find myself tapping Ctrl+A -> backspace faster than I can react to it myself. Life is too short for waiting for the little cursor to travel all the way back.
Yep. Me sometimes. Like you know the answer. It's simple and logical. The other person is obviously wrong and defending their position badly... But then you realise it's stupid to try and waste your time on a subject you don't even care about, to a person who cannot be educated.
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I do this, and I have a "graveyard log" file where I paste my discarded posts and replies.
deletes his own comment without posting it after realizing he was wrong after defending what he now no longer believes in, for seven paragraphs
If I said a quarter of the shit I typed out online, my corpse would be in a Lebanese prison cell.
Actually it's a keyboard shortcut to close the browser tab.
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