I really like fanfiction. Reading and writing it. Nobody in my life knows and I plan on keeping it that way.
No one IRL knows I help run a Lemmy instance and I plan on keeping it that way for now as it’s going to take too much explaining.
I’ve tried explaining Lemmy to people and they do not understand. They are like “just use reddit bro”
I stopped using Reddit when the API protests happened and haven’t gone back. I honestly think Lemmy is far superior. I love seeing and interacting with the same people in varying threads. Feels like an actual community.
“Reddit but run by non profits” is the simplest I find, even though that’s not completely accurate
I am halfway through. I deleted my old account and tried to use Lemmy, but formula1 is dead here and only on Reddit I find my dose of heroin news
The bargain I’ve made with myself is that Reddit is now a read-only adblock-only resource for me, and I’m prepared for it to go away on it’s own. I don’t post there, but I was active in several niche communities, and was a voice in the crowd on a few more popular ones (sportsball related) that don’t get a ton of traction here (though this college football season was fun. Hang in there, !cfb@fanaticus.social ), and I’m not going to completely give up checking in on things, but I engage on the Fediverse and a few forums full of crotchety old bastards who never “got” reddit in the first place.
- Fanfics, too. I love fanfics exploring what-ifs of a work, and myself wrote two or three of those, but assumers immediately associate them with the lemons.
- Isekai. Same deal as fanfics, except with escapism instead of porn. (I’m a sucker for fantasy dammit.)
- Machine text generation. Yeah, I don’t want to be confused with a functionally illiterate tech bro.
I love fanfics exploring what-ifs of a work, and myself wrote two or three of those, but assumers immediately associate them with the lemons.
This is it for me, too. I’d wouldn’t mind talking about some of the fanfics I’ve read, but you can’t even mention fanfiction without people assuming you’re essentially reading porn.
That I still play Roblox for the Napoleonic Wars community. I don’t want to be associated with the brain dead games that make up like 90%+ of Roblox
Every once in a while I fire up Roblox for a few rounds of Arsenal. I’m quite bad and regularly get pwned by what I assume are 12 year olds, but the features and feel aren’t a world apart from the second-gen FPS’s I played in college (e.g. Quake 2, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, LucasArts’ Outlaws, etc.).
Nice try mom
Anime
I am incredibly picky with the anime I watch, so I don’t watch much of it. Thankfully I associate with people who also watch anime, so I don’t have to hide it lol
My problem is that the people I associate with that watch anime, watch anime that I don’t. It’s not a genre, it’s a medium, and there is not much common ground between Haibane Renmei and My Hero Academia
But yeah, it is nice to be able to have computer wallpapers and wall art without the people I know thinking I’m an /a/ style weeb
