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Which is super understandable, in the short term I found it could really help me get to sleep. I'll probably still don't occasionally if I'm struggling but I think using it consistently just makes you build a tolerance until it isn't really helping anymore.

I'm a Lemmy user but I absolutely think the fediverse could be the real web 3.0. Corporations showed they can't be trusted to build sustainable products. I'd much prefer to build up the fediverse to a point where it is seriously competitive than to go back to reddit. Even if they roll back the changes now they've shown their hand. They are just going to keep finding more ways to squeeze users for profit.

I'm also curious which will see more development. Kbin has a lower bar to entry because it's PHP but I imagine there are others that have no interest in touching PHP unless I'm being paid for it. I'd have to learn Rust to help with Lemmy but I have heard really good things about it so I'm considering it.

Here come the scab mods!

Public companies are legally required to always do their best to grow year over year. Eventually these companies get so large they can't realistically get more market share so they have to figure out how to make more money from their users. This leads to them squeezing users for cash in the hunt for short term gains because they've already realistically capped out on how much money they can make per year. It's a dumb system that can't work in the long term.

From my sleep study I saw the same results, my REM sleep periods would only start later in the night when the weed wore off. I'm also starting to feel like my memory is suffering. There is also just the problem of tolerance, I want to land on a sustainable approach to smoking.

That's really interesting, I can see how I might have gotten to a similar level. I had never smoked before university, I was always busy with sports/ school. I only started seriously smoking around COVID and I definitely got attached to it. I found it messed with my appetite and would make me anxious when I was high sometimes. I would smoke probably 4-5 bowls a day. The last 3 probably did nothing most of the time. When I was home from school I'd smoke joints more and at a more controlled rate. I found it more pleasant once I'd get used to a lower intake. Recently I've had to pass a drug test and I'm taking a month and a half break to ensure I pass. It's been nice to see that I can very easily stop cold turkey. Outside of when I'm drunk I really don't crave it.

That's really interesting, I had a friend that said the same thing. Personally I hadn't noticed that my dreams disappeared because it had happened slowly and they were just more infrequent. Have you had to take any time off? I'm curious if you would have a similar experience to me.

I didn't even realize how my dreams had changed. I would still have occasional dreams but now I have multiple vivid dreams per night. I used to be a lucid dreamer and I'm slowly getting back to that.

I found the same thing, for me I think I got too good at the fun parts of weed and wouldn't be impacted by them. That left me with just making dumb decisions and being anxious. Not to mention just how high my tolerance got. I also found it made me too okay with doing nothing. I love having a lazy day every once in a while but I do want to have hobbies so I go out and meet people. Once I've passed this drug test and I can smoke again I'm hoping to keep it much more infrequent.

It's definitely showing that most people aren't willing to be inconvenienced even if it's to help themselves. I'm not sure a scenario exists where going back to reddit is a good idea. They are going public and that's not gonna change. Being a public company means they are going to chase the money and if they don't today they will burn down the platform to make more money later.

Eyyyy, Acadia grad checking in! I'm not living in NS anymore but I promise I'll be back :)