Nominel

Huh, thank you for the summary! What a strange (but fascinating) premise. Definitely a weird book to have during the first week of COVID shutdowns… All the zombie apocalypse stories also hit rather differently when read during COVID lockdown 😅

Would that be Early Riser by Jasper Fforde? If not, I’m very curious what the book was.

OK, I’ll stay posted for the new site!

I’m relieved to hear you’ll still be running your instance despite these issues! Are you thinking of potentially moving the Literature Cafe forums to Sublinks?

I definitely hear you on the moderation difficulties… with the Fediverse being as far-reaching as it is, good moderation tools are essential and it seems like Lemmy simply doesn’t have these available.

I was curious how the effect was created and found this: https://www.ignant.com/2016/01/07/an-illusory-swimming-pool-by-leandro-erlich/

Under a 10cm layer of water, the rest of the “pool” is a walk-in art exhibit. There are lots of photos in that link from both above and below the water. It’s a permanent exhibit in a Japanese museum of contemporary art.

Sketchup is a fairly simple 3D modelling software which I find good for home design/modelling. It has a free version.