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Cake day: September 1st, 2021

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  • Have you checked the signup page for your Lemmy instance lately? It amounts to “write us a short essay personal statement of what you intend to do here and we’ll manually approve your account sometime, hopefully soon.” I know this is somewhat standardized among instances, and it’s there for a noble reason, but it’s without a doubt friction for everybody who goes to sign up, and a barrier to entry for a good chunk of people, who might not yet even fully know why they’d want to join aside from “my friend says this is cool.”









  • It would be pretty irresponsible for me to make a suggestion. I chose my camera system well over a decade ago and while it’s served me well, the market is way different today and I haven’t kept up with current choices. (There’s a very real chance I wouldn’t make the same choice if I was starting out in 2025.) I’ve seen posts in !photography@lemmy.ml or !photography@lemmy.world with questions like yours answered by helpful people who are actually up on current stuff, so I’d definitely see what they have to say.

    edit: To expand on this somewhat, if you choose well you’ll likely get a number of years out of your camera “body” (the actual camera itself, not counting the lens) before you feel like you need to upgrade to a new one. At that point you’ll keep all your lenses and choose a new body from the same system, which means it’s still compatible with your collection of lenses. (And while it seems counterintuitive, some lenses can actually cost more than the camera body.) That’s why, although these are things you don’t need to know today, per se, choosing a system that suits your needs and budget matters, and why you want advice from people with broader experience.