Mildly infuriating my arse.
The only future outcomes are wholly and completely infuriated to the very core of your being if the ex escalates past phone harassment to real life.
Or
The feeling of smug self satisfaction of dodging the fucking firing squad when this person leaves your life without further fuss.
Depends entirely on your values and perspective
If you're coming from the upper echelons of US income then it might not.
Otherwise you'll potentially find the increase in quality of life to be significant.
Americans work too much, commute to much and don't take enough holidays. Europeans work significantly less hours day to day, have significantly shorter commutes on average and have legally required and protected minimum annual leave that vastly outstrips US workers.
E.g. Take myself and a US friend in a very similar job into account. Yes he earns roughly double what I do.
Those listed things are just employment based. Culture is also a factor. I've never once worried about being shot in my entire life. Our food quality standards are higher whilst also costing significantly less. We don't have the institutionalised national self delusion of tipping culture. Our religious and crazy right wing aren't politically powerful enough to be dragging us kicking and screaming inti the 18th century like the US is. We aren't completely and utterly dependent on cars, so being car free is a viable way to live.
My final note is this. I'm not some US hating zealot. I literally booked flights for a two week holiday in the US yesterday. I adore the NBA and find American people to be absolutely lovely on average. But I couldn't live the way most Americans do.
You're just being obtuse if you think that there's no confusion for the majority.
The absolute vast majority aren't techies, they aren't open to learning and they have been used to centralised simplicity.
Just trying to explain home instances, federation and defederation is more than enough to lose the interest and understanding of a vast majority.
Now the barriers do lend themselves to an entirely different feeling and community base. Whether that's good or bad is down to personal taste. But Lemmy isn't going to compete with reddit until the process is streamlined and the thinking required is mostly removed.
I'm undecided at the moment.
I'm now mostly past the muscle memory of instantly opening Reddit any time I'm not actively busy.
Lemmy isn't ready to fill the hole that has left. But honestly as it stands I'm not sure that I want to fill that hole. It would probably be better for my mental health, concentration, social life and many other things if I could successfully leverage this moment to become a whole lot less of an online person.
The beans phase had me doubting the quality part for sure.
I know we'll not regain the special privileges we had and will need to eventually move toward the Euro but good lord we should be rejoining the EU posthaste.
CSGO. My most played game for a reason. Also with community servers and the essentially limitless skill ceiling I'd not be short of things to do.
Or:
GuildWars 2 as I've still got an absolutely gargantuan amount of content to catch up with and the games got massive variety.
Hades is a phenomenal Deck game.
The gameplay is fantastically fun. The gameplay also lends itself well to quick blasts and also longer sessions.
Plus it's also pretty easy to get it running for 3-4 hours on a charge with minimal settings tweaking.
I knew I had an issue with the amount of time I spent on Reddit.
But good lord the repeated opening of Reddit Sync to no avail over the past days really driven home just how much I just defaulted to Reddit in any dead time.
The Kindle app for my phone has been a life saver for me.
I still have the muscle memory to open up Reddit Sync any time I've got some downtime to kill. So having that as a quick alternative has been great.
Connect seems really good so far.
Big thing is time for now. The Devs of some of the largest Reddit apps are onboard with making Lemmy apps but given Reddit's disgustingly short timeline for the API changes they've not really had the time required to do much.
I'm certainly waiting with for Sync for Lemmy as I used Sync for a decade and am more than happy to wait and support the dev.
Edit: The more I look at connect the more it seems like a straight clone of Sync. Sync won't be the only major app either.
Yeah that's a perspective I understand and I will miss some of that. However for myself at least the removal of Reddit appears to be beneficial to me to such a degree as to out weigh the loss.
But I already have had the benefit of 13 years of reddit opening my eyes andt 13 years of growth and experience from teenager to a responsible adult at the same time so don't feel the mind broadening the same extent any more.