I feel personally attacked by this and honestly, I am fine with it. I didn’t spend years honing my ability to avoid eye contact just to have some meme tell me I am missing out. Social interaction is basically just a high-stakes game of “guess what this person actually wants” and I am tired of playing.

People are exhausting. You have to put on real pants, drive somewhere, and then pretend to care about someone’s cousin’s wedding or their new air fryer. On Lemmy, I can just scroll past the stuff I don’t like and nobody gets their feelings hurt. It is peak efficiency.

If “wasting time” means I get to stay in my pajamas and not have to navigate a three-way conversation at a loud bar, then consider my time well and truly wasted. This is exactly why I joined the fediverse in the first place. Stay away from me.