Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)

I like art and being nice to people on the internet. At least most of the time. My previous account was Cris_Color before changing instances

Queer, gender-messy twink. Into crafts. Learning how to care for plants. Nerdy about fish and aquariums.

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Joined 5 months ago
Cake day: February 26th, 2026
  • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.world•Returning to the fediverse is hard.English
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    4 hours ago

    Hey blaze, I haven’t seen you around for a bit ☺️ thanks for the instance reccomendations a while back when I switched from Cris_Color; I’m appreciating the no-fuss out of the way approach to moderation and governance from the .zip folks!

    Yeah, I think I should probably sit down and do that at some point, it’d be nice to be able to step in and out of the news as I please

    Hope you have a lovely day!

  • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.world•Returning to the fediverse is hard.English
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    1 day ago

    I absolutely agree, I am also a leftist but constantly stewing in political news isn’t good for your head, or even in a practical sense good for your ability to go actually get involved in stuff outside. You have to take care of yourself if you want emotional energy with which to do any real political labor

    I wish we could come up with some collective strategy to create better balance cause this platform tends to share politics as common ground, and with not many people here that means a lot of what gets posted and engaged with is all just news and politics.

    And yes, I know everything is political. AND, you need to be able to step away from the politics of the world and catch your breath and be mentally well. Any one thing dominating your time and emotional energy can become unhealthy quickly, especially when its all bad news or small victories that remind you of the broken bigger picture.

    Balance is important. I’m thinking about creating a seperate account and blocking all the political communities and filtering by keywords so I can just be here for hobbies and folks chatting when I want that

  • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.world•Threadiverse Major Defederations GraphEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The fediverse is great if you fall into the like 5 interests that are pretty well represented here.

    But if the communities you wanna engage with aren’t really active enough for potential posters to not just forget they exist, or you don’t really want to be on a platform where 75% of the front page is news or memes about the state of the world politically, its not neccisarily a great replacement to reddit

    For me it happens to cover enough of my bases, but I can get why it wouldn’t for many people.