i upgraded from the s7 to the s22 and i think its the perfect size. really marginally larger than my s7, getting something in a similar size was important to me and it really is just right.
caephi
joined 2 years ago
recently read 'Homecoming' by Kate Morton. it's historical fiction set in austrailia in 2018 but a large part of the story centers around the deaths of a mother and her children in 1959. i went into it mostly interested in it for the mystery aspect trying to sleuth out the answers as to what happened to the family but by the end it really hit me with the emotional threads it weaved throughout.
a fun quirk of the book is large parts of it are written as another in-universe book written on the events in 1959. so there is a lens that informs the main muder mystery pillar of the story that adds a cool layer to the narrative.
disregarding the murder mystery the book had some great interwoven character narratives that all tied beautifully together. every character was very fleshed out and felt very singular, they didn't feel archetypal. the themes of family and how it gets tied into each characters development in the story was very satisfying. i would very much recommend.
i was on reddit for 10 years. i've just started taking up lemmy and the 'fediverse'. hoping this can at least partially supplant the things i use reddit for. it's going to take time to build up the userbase/collective information reddit has built up, so i am going to try and be more active on this platform than i'd otherwise be to start building on this platform. my hope is federated content sharing can be an endpoint that will be sturdier against the kind of market and social fluctuations that are ruining reddit. 'fediverse' is a dumb name tho, not crazy about that.
yeah it's important that people post and comment. lurking is only good once there's a critical mass of content and engagement to sustain that kind of passive browsing. i hope new users will understand it's early days on this platform and content has to come from somewhere!