Most “pranks” are just a) terribly unfunny, b) actually bullying by another name, or c) both.

If we could just keep the rare good ones I’d be all for it, but alas!

I know it’s a different culture around tech everywhere. But where I am, this doesn’t seem like an unpopular opinion so much as an accepted thing. People who came to the internet quite late tend to go iPhone because it feels simpler and keeps them safer and that seems fine to me. Good that there’s an option for everyone.

Unfortunately that link doesn’t help much. Currently among the list of “recommended instances” (followed by a claim that it “doesn’t matter” which of these you choose) are a French-speaking instance, a crypto instance, and an anime instance. Hardly welcoming places for your average person, unless you happen to be a French crypto bro looking for porn in which case you are definitely well catered for.

OP might not have all the details worked out but their point is a good one, and it’s an issue on Mastodon as well. It’s all well and good having a one-liner description about each instance but it can be quite a trawl to find the actual important info you need to make a decision.

A couple of the apps do have this “multi community” feature, if you’re a mobile user. Summit definitely does, Raccoon (the one I’m replying from now) technically does but it’s pretty broken so I’m hoping that gets looked at soon. And tbh maybe more of them do now, it’s been a while since I checked!

Upvoted for actually unpopular opinion.

But also YOU’RE COMPLETELY RIGHT.

(username does not check out though)

It’s been common for a lot longer than that in the UK, we’re very lazy :D

Yeah I’m trying to remember how we used to do it (the last time I went through a normal checkout with a full shop was probably 10 years ago) and this seems right.

Gotta have the heavy stuff handy so you can put it straight into the bottom of the bags. Anything else is wasting time!

You’ve had some well-meaning but ultimately not quite accurate answers in this thread so just to clarify:

You can follow, post to and interact with Lemmy communities from Mastodon, because they’re treated the same way as a “group” on Mastodon in general.

You can NOT follow and interact with Mastodon users from Lemmy, because Mastodon accounts are individual “users” and Lemmy doesn’t have the concept of following and interacting with users, only with communities. If Lemmy ever does add a feature to let us follow other users, then in theory following Mastodon users will also become possible.

I’ve not “used” it but for some reason they’ve decided to include one of my accounts in their gaming feed so I checked it out.

Just seemed like a too-broad-to-be-useful repost bot, although apparently there are real people “curating” too. Why they’d repost my inane ramblings if it’s actually human-curated, I do not know.

I do however know quite a few people who blocked them already since it just looks at first glance like complete spam. Like most Fedi stuff, they could probably do with communicating better what it is they’re actually trying to do.

What on earth is a butter spreader? If someone’s invented a device even better than the spoon, I’m in!

A lot of people have commented about butter being hard and I’m wondering if it’s a location-dependent thing? Those solid butter blocks are a thing here (UK) but I don’t know anyone who uses them as a normal daily butter for spreading, they’re mostly just if you’re cooking or something and it doesn’t matter that it’s a big solid lump.

I can’t tell if you’re mistakenly thinking we use the front of the spoon, which definitely would result in a lot of wasted stuck butter. Or if you just imagine it’s way harder to spread it all off the curved surface than it is.

That would be ridiculous. Luckily you’re imagining scooping it up as being way more complicated than it actually is :D

I admit it can be situational, for example I still use a knife for peanut butter just because it’s annoying to try and get a spoon into the jar. But I’d argue your first point is what the kids these days refer to as a “skill issue” 😉

Lurpak Spreadable, baby 😎

I knew it couldn’t just be me!

Husband did once admit I might be right, but it was about 20 hours after he’d had general anaesthetic so claims it can’t be used against him.

Alas, not really! I have a cheap shuttle and am still trying to get the hang of “the flip” but I’ll get it eventually. I did manage a sort of wonky snowflake but that’s about it so far. Trouble is, as you know, all the other hobbies getting in the way 😄

Currently working on cross stitching a dragon from the Discworld books, knitting some crazy speckly socks and a shawl that is way behind where it needs to be to be finished on time, and planning various sewing projects. RIP my free time.

Just left another comment with links to some of the more active craft communities on here, we’d love to see what you’re working on if you ever want to share!

We do a lot of hanging out and gossiping on fedi tbf. Mastodon is really big on crafts, and on Lemmy we have places like !knitting@lemmy.world, !crochet@lemmy.ca, !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works, !sewing@lemmy.world etc for specific crafts.

For the crafts a bit too niche to have their own active community, !imadethis@lemm.ee loves to see completed projects!

Gonna tag @DharmaCurious@startrek.website and @OftenWrong@startrek.website too because I feel like a lot of folks don’t realise how much craft stuff we have on here!

I’ve taught a few people to crochet and all it really takes is patience, and and accepting that you’re going to feel like you’ve somehow got both too many and also not enough hands for the first little while. There’s no shortage of tutorials online so it’s just a question of finding a beginner one that clicks with you and going from there.

And if you get stuck, need to ask newbie questions, or just want to show off the first few wonky rows of stitches you make to people who will understand what an achievement it is, !crochet@lemmy.ca is the community for you!

I immediately thought of tatting just because it’s kind of interesting that you can do it two such different ways with such different tools, and also because using a shuttle looks like actual witchcraft.