I'm in complete agreement. When I joined Beehaw, I didn't think much of the lack of downvotes - "oh, cool, sounds good." It's definitely made it easier to want to interact with the community (as someone partial to lurking) and I've come to appreciate that they're disabled on this instance. Glad to see others are in agreement.

I do something similar - I've subscribed to a few communities now that have popped up at the top of my feed because I thought "oh, this looks cool"

I mostly still listen to the same stuff I used to. Most of my favorite bands are still coming out with albums, so every time something new drops I get to add that into the mix. Occasionally I'll add in a new song, whether I hear it in a videogame (my husband loves videogame music, so I've added some great tracks as a result) or the radio or with a friend, but I haven't had a new artist grab me the way my favorites did once upon a time. In that way, I might just be resistant to change.

I definitely don't necessarily have the time to look for new stuff, so I usually stumble upon it. I don't agree that all music today sounds the same - at least, not anymore "the same" than what was coming out ten years ago. Sure, some things within a genre might be similar, but I don't think it's any more "same-y" now than it used to be. If you're finding new stuff you enjoy, past or present, I think that's awesome.

I think the easiest way is to take the link for the post you want to interact with (so https://lemmy.ml/post/1181103) and put it in the search (the spyglass to the left of your username). I just tested it and this should pull up the post so you can interact with it on Beehaw.

Reminder that if you don't see anything, give it a few minutes to pull the information and then try again. Instances we haven't interacted with before can take a minute since the information needs to be pulled.

Just letting you know I appreciate your question because the answers are going to help me out, too. Many of us are learning how to use Lemmy, there are no stupid questions.

This is correct. You would need to create a community on another instance that allows anyone to do so, as only admins can create new communities on Beehaw and they aren't planning to add more at this time.

Hmm, they might be visible because you're viewing it through your instance and someone on an instance with them enabled downvoted, but I can't be sure. This would be a better question for Beehaw Support, or maybe even Lemmy support since I'm not sure we have an answer based on my current understanding.

This instance has downvotes turned off. My understanding is that since your account is from an instance that uses them, you can see and use the button, but it doesn't affect Beehaw posts. I believe the intentions are usually good for why downvotes exist, as you've mentioned, but since people will use them to disagree or otherwise spread negativity (think how vote brigading happens on reddit) it's disabled here altogether. Hope that helps!

Oh man, Clank Catacombs looks right up my alley. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have to keep these in mind the next time I add to my collection of board games.

If you can make a tool work for you, that's what matters in my opinion. If not, well, not every tool is for everyone and that's cool too.

I probably wouldn't have spent much time on it if I couldn't just pick up sections and move them around the screen all willy-nilly. I thought it was neat, so the program held my attention where normally mind maps aren't my thing.

I do the same as you with Google Docs - it honestly never occurred to me to use something fancier. I did used to use a mind map software when I had grand ambitions of writing longer works, FreeMind.

While I would love to use pen and paper, my handwriting is a mess and it would get lost long before I ever moved it to a digital format.

I definitely haven't been as interested in reading comments on Reddit - I still go for the pet pictures and the funny gifs while I can, but between all the drama and bots, I agree that it's nice to have another platform I'm more interested in.