I've been a part of the dance community for about 5 years, as a ballroom dancer. I encourage you to explore the wonderful world of dancing with us over at m/dance!

/m/dance@kbin.social

https://kbin.social/m/dance

!dance@kbin.social

Hopefully the links work.

I recently bought a suit to go to a friend's wedding.

New vocab:

• 生地 cloth, fabric
• 生地感 texture of fabric
• 縮める bring in the sides/waist/legs
• 仕立て tailoring, fitting
• 直線的 linear
• 曲線的 curved (style for broad-shouldered as opposed to 直線的 for skinny guys)
• 既製 off-the-shelf, ready-to-wear (as opposed to パターンオーダー)
• お渡し ready, done

What new vocab have you learned in-context recently?

The Fediverse must be very careful to avoid getting branded as the "alternative to X". In my experience, platforms that have historically branded themselves as "alternative to" or "anti-" have generally not done well. Learned this from the last Reddit exodus: let's make this one different!

How can this time be different?

Join real communities, contribute real content.

Sorry, but low-effort image macros and meta-posting about how much everyone hates Reddit (yes, yes, u/spez sucks, carry on) is not a recipe for a successful platform. It doesn't hurt, but it doesn't really help either.

This time, the exodus appears to have been large enough to start disrupting Google search, at least anecdotally. This is an opportunity for the Fediverse: now is the time to create searchable content, to ask the questions that people are asking search engines, and to engage in real communities.

Here's my call to action:

1. Find 1 new community on any Lemmy/Kbin/etc. and make a post/article. Not a low-effort post, but something that a search engine would pick up on.
2. Comment when you've done so, with a link to the post.
3. Then, go and comment on someone else's post that they've commented.

Let's make the Fediverse succeed!

Here are some options for Kbin communities, but feel free to pick others on other instances as well!

• https://kbin.social/m/SoloBoardGames
• https://kbin.social/m/woodworking
• https://kbin.social/m/soccer
• https://kbin.social/m/Fitness
• https://kbin.social/m/streetphotography (the microblog is quite active)
• https://kbin.social/m/functionalprint (3D printing)

最近、何かを読みながら「忠実」という言葉に出会ったが、ふりがなはなぜか予想の「ちゅう・じつ」の代わりに「ま・め」だった！辞書になかったから、投稿の記事を見つけた。

記事の纏め：

「水面」と書いて「すいめん」と「みなも」。また、「最中」と書いて「さいちゅう」と「もなか」。 漢字の中には、こんなふうにまったく同じ漢字なのに二つの読み方をするものが少なくありません。 そこでこの記事では、上記のように“二つの読み方がある漢字”をピックアップしてご紹介。あなたはいくつ読めるでしょうか？

I listen to a lot of podcasts in English, and I've been trying to find good, interesting podcasts in Japanese as well. Audiobooks are also good.

I found すずめの戸締り, but I'd love to hear about other resources that people have found.