Usually I try to listen to a few different versions until I land on one that really clicks with me. It takes a little bit to really understand what that means. To me the orchestra is less important than the director. The music is always the same, but the director decides which parts will pop out the most, how fast the tempo is, and how he wants the orchestra to play parts.

I’ll use the beethoven example again.

Here is the version that I don’t like. That was the “familiar” version I knew, and I didn’t like it so I never listened to this piece.

When I got into my current classical kick, I went to Spotify and stumbled on this version: https://open.spotify.com/track/4mw5oRBKNBfNV0dXAOIcne

I literally picked it because I thought the album cover was interesting because it had some color. A lot of classical albums are committed to black and white for some reason.

Googling a piece can help, especially if you search for like “beethoven 5th best recordings.” You’ll find a lot of opinions out there, and it can help you get a starting point for a given piece to go from.

If you find yourself wanting to go to a more “comfortable” version, it means something in the recording you’re listening to isn’t clicking with you. That’s OK! Try to identify what it is that makes you not like that recording, and what the one you prefer does differently that makes you prefer it. It helps to write it down; if you make posts here or on Mastodon that may help a lot with articulating what you do or don’t like (and boost engagement).

Seemingly “simple” things like “i think this section is too fast” or “the version I like has the horn section louder here, but this version focussed on the windpipes” really influence how you hear the music and make a big difference, and are completely valid reasons to prefer one recording over another.

Mahlers 5th is good, but I think his 4th is better.

But my personal favorite is Beethoven’s 5th. I used to HATE that symphony when I was a kid, my grandmother loved it and it bored me to tears.

Turns out the version she had on CD that she always listened to was the worst recording you can find of it. It was WAY too slow, it made the whole thing drag on. That symphony works best when it’s damn near rushing. When I got back into classical a few months back I found the Berliner Philharmoniker playing it directed by Simon Rattle, and the sprint through that symphony, and it works SO MUCH BETTER. It was very clearly intended to be played fast, so many of the parts feel way more interesting and there’s sections where each part of the orchestra feels like it’s tripping over the others to be heard.

He’s incredibly good at turning experiences into words. Allentown is still relevant today, the way he wrote it it just describes so many peoples American experience.

But he did that a lot. Where I think he’s best with it is more emotional songs, he really captures whatever emotion he’s getting into words well. Like, Captain Jack does a good job of telling the story of someone in small town America, but I always heard it as a song about depression. All this stuff is happening around you and you’re just kinda there for it, not really feeling much of anything.

Or how he captures that nervous feeling about meeting a girl for the first time in Get it Right the First Time. He is so good at getting emotion into music.

Lots of classic rock. Billy Joel, led zeppelin, etc.

But lately I’ve been on a classical music kick.

Yep bitwarden is the best

You’re outside during a thunderstorm, you should go inside

At the wall plug so you can unplug the server as fast as possible before the drink it just poured destroys the hardware

… I’ll see myself out

I am on Mastodon.social, and I use the official app (this one) . I think the official app is quite good, I haven’t had any kind of problem with it.

For reference though I literally never got I to Twitter. I got I to Mastodon to boost fediverse engagement, and while I’m enjoying it I’m not what you’d call a power user so if there are features other apps offer that the official one doesn’t I wouldn’t know what to do with them.

The things you point our are lacking are the reason the grocery stores are so big. When you go to the store it’s not just a small thing you do on your way to do something else, because when you’re in a car nothing is easy. Parking and walking into the store can take a few minutes, so stopping after work every day gets annoying fast because what could have been a 5 minute stop on fklt inevitably turns into a 15-20 minute stop.

So, you make going to the store a once or twice a week thing, and you buy EVERYTHING you think you’ll want or need in that week when you go to handle that the store needs more in stock.

Yes. I have a whole house dns adlock AND iuse a browser adblock as well.

Too many websites are COMPLETE SHIT TO NAVIGATE without adblock. They will be slow to load because of all the ad servers loading in. They fill so much of their space with ads that the main Co tent you’re there to see is obfuscated. They break content up with ads, so you’re forced to scroll past them.

I have never understood why we legally allow advertising at all. Why should we let companies harass literally anyone with advertisements? I know literally nobody who likes seeing ads on any kind of content. It’s an incredibly annoying thing we have normalized, and it needs to get cut back.

Textra for SMSwhich is almost all of my messaging out side of…

Discord. My friends and I constantly use the discord we created and that’s how I communicate with most of them.

I want to get my fiancee/close friends on signal because it’s encrypted but haven’t been able to convince them

the presence of transgender athletes in competitions

I disagree, that isn’t a “polite disagreement” and is, absolutely, “just transphobes attacking people trying to live their own life” as you put it. Every time that “Argument” happens it’s openly done in biologically unfounded ways by people who simply don’t understand how our bodies actually work- yet those arguments get mass upvoted by people who also don’t understand how biology actually works and who believe that trans athletes get some insane, unfair advantage.

If you want to pass laws to restrict trans people from sports, then you want to pass laws to discriminate against trans people. That’s not really up for debate IMO, it’s a straight up fact; it’s what you’re doing when you advocate for laws that are not founded in science, that are specifically targeting a tiny minority for the chance that one of that tiny minority might beat cis athletes in an “unfair” way, you’re advocating for bigoted laws.

Such arguments are also inevietably filled with people misgendering trans people, deliberately calling trans women “men” and hiding behind the “I’m talking about biology” argument to do so.

Replace the word “trans” with “black” and you’ll find that people are making literally identical arguments to those against desegregating professional sports leagues 80 years ago. Literally word for word.

If a lot of mods stopped using reddit, it would get absolutely inundated with actual regulatory attacks because it would get flooded with child porn, explicit harrassment, and nazis.

Any of the top 10 communities having enough mods resign would cause absolute havoc for reddit, yet they consistently screw over mods.

This may unironically be the first time I’ve ever suggested this: this may actually be a use case for the block chain.

If the user data from all instances was being saved to a distributed and verified ledger, it would fix the problem of one node going down losing all of those users, and would be a decentralized yet centralized way to go about it.

… I feel dirty, I swear I’m not a cryptobro

Your point #3 is by far my biggest concern with lemmy, and the reason that I made an account on lemmy.ml. It seemed big and populated enough to feel confident it wo t go away. The devs need to find a way to make that happen. Partly because of what you said but also because it’s super confusing to click on a link and suddenly appear to be logged out because it took you to a different instance.

I fully agree that for more casual users these 3 things are BIG turnoffs.

Fully agree about subscribing to communities outside your instance. That’s something that needs to be cleaned up if were aiming for widespread adoption. It’s too confusing for casual users as it is.

I’m using Jeroba on android and I think it’s pretty solid so far, considering how new it is. It has more than I expected it to, it just needs time to get developed more. There’s a few features I want to go make github issues to request, but they’re nothing critical.

And I agree with your last paragraph completely. I think most people using third party apps were not lurkers. Most of them were probably using a 3pa because they had been for years, from the time when the reddit app was either nonexistent or even worse than tosay, or had found the reddit app too annoying to comment and post with. They’re people who use reddit so much on their phone that the official app is too annoying and ugly to tolerate.

And seeing how many mods are ip in arms about the mod tools they use, it seems like reddit is really shooting itself in the foot.

I posted a comment, one of my first, about something I think would vastly improve the user experience. I stand by it 100%, what I describe there was by far the most confusing part for me. I think the new user guide in general could use a pass-over by people who aren’t tech savvy and are going to be more “casual” users, right now it’s quite long and IMO a bit too technical for most people. It’s too much all at once.

Now that I’m past that, I’m finding it quite similar to reddit. The biggest “problem” so far is that it’s so small, so a lot of the small reddit communities I was in are non existant. I’m not comfortable moderating (I don’t really have the time), so I won’t make them myself, but I will miss them. Tbh for some things I’ll probably still use reddit on desktop (until they kill old reddit) but lemmy on mobile.

My biggest concern from the beginning, and the reason I joined a big and established instance, is what will happen to people’s accounts if their instance gets taken down by the creators. To me that seems like a kinda fundamental flaw here. I’m really not sure how or if it could be fixed, either.

It’s my favorite fantasy series. I highly recommend it if you like modern fantasy; you’ll notice that a lot of stuff written in the last 20 years is often heavily influenced by it. It’s also complete, so you don’t need to wait for more books to come out

The hardest part with it, frankly, is that book 1 feels very different from the others because the author hadn’t quite gotten his feet under him. It’s also extremely long at 14 total books, each one over 700 pages. But I think it’s well worth it.

Yes but there’s only 7 subscribers and I’m the only post :(

Then again it’s a niche community about a fantasy series, I’m not surprised it doesn’t have much going on yet.