Simply put, not everyone gets do to everything. It sucks but that’s the unfortunate state of life.

The original post is taking about spaces. Locations. Whether or not you have time or a car or whatever has nothing to do with the original post. My point is locations as per the original post do exist and the original post says there are none at all.

This is true, this is fact. Your ability to utilize a space has a lot of factors but the existence of them doesn’t.

Except for the bowling arcade place everything I mentioned is free. The jungle gym place is $25 to get them both in, wouldn’t call that rich territory

taken away all of the physical spaces for our children to exist in,

Not sure this is true. I’ve got two young kids and there’s no shortage of things to do. Pools, hiking, every school has a playground. I mean yea they’re not the death traps we grew up with but my kids have a lot of fun and I’m always on the hunt for another school to try them out at. Our city has one of those jungle gym, bowling, arcade combo places we usually go on a rainy day or during the winter.

This is the town I grew up in and pretty much everything I grew up with is still there plus more. You just have to go looking is all.

I’ll contend with the digital world being a step back but I’ve been trying to mostly keep my kids off it as long as possible

Funny this about this, if they had stuck with the Popeye IP this game would likely be forgotten now. Instead they created two of the most indelible characters in videogame history.

Yea this is some bonkers wishful thinking. This is basically the Jeremey Clarkson “oh no! Anyway…” meme

This is going to upset 10s of people

You’re supposed to say “Not much, you?” which deflects the conversation back to them.

Lemmy could absolutely benefit from a bit more traffic. Lemmy is a good Reddit replacement for the largest subs. Like if you’re into self hosting, Linux and general tech there’s a lot to offer. But if I need to engage with a smaller community or ask a niche question I know there just isn’t enough people here to fulfill that. Either that or a lot of smaller Lemmy communities are just bots reposting from their equivalent subreddit.

I’m pulling a number out of my ass but it seems like for every 50 people to subscribe to a community, you’ll get 1 really active poster and 49 lurkers. My hometown on Reddit has 23k subscribers it’s safe to say it’s got about 400 active users. On Lemmy it’s 86 and as the assumption math goes, there’s only 1 person posting there.

Even if our traffic doubled we’d still be tiny in comparison but at least the small communities would start to come alive

Reddit is gonna be just fine and the shade we like to throw around here isn’t even a blip on their radar