I’ve tried many paths in my life. Today at age 41 I know least where I want to go, rather than having any clearer idea of where my life is headed.

There’s also the distinct possibility that we’ll be mostly dead in a decade due to climate change, famine, pandemic or war, in which case our preferences, hopes and dreams don’t matter in the slightest.

The rich know that 99% of us will be dead by halfway 2030. They’re just looting what they can so they can party while Rome the world burns around them.

I don’t really agree that it’s much easier to start on Reddit. Especially nowadays.

-Post from an IP that was once used by a banned account? Also banned (after first being shadowbanned)

-Try to post in any niche sub of your choosing after making an account? Forget it, wait three weeks and farm 3K karma first (which encourages shitposting and reposting, lowering quality)

-Deviate a fraction of an inch from whatever sub’s 500-page rulebook? Banned.

-Try to argue an unbanning? That’s a permanent mute.

-Post anything - and I do mean anything - in a “wrong” sub, get immediately permabanned by a slew of subs you didn’t even know existed.

-Some mod doesn’t agree with something you posted? Even if it was 5 years ago in a sub that has since been deleted? Banned and muted.

Reddit is an absolutely terrible experience for new posters. How they even manage to retain a tenth of them is beyond me. I encourage them to keep it up however, more traffic for Lemmy.