Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

Back of a church.

Where’s the link to say NO LICENSE FOR YOU!?

kbin.social to start with, posted in random, now another kbin. is being used, but I didn’t note the suffix.

Don’t take it seriously. Don’t put up with toxicity. Don’t be afraid to do without.

Give it to me in raw numbers, how many Americans does that really mean?

What, now?

Just.don’t.go.

Watch the fun.

… try using a Macbook touchpad and then any other one after it.

^ This.

Have been given a current Surface Pro laptop for work and must use an external mouse, or rage in frustration that my 13 yo MBP has a better functioning trackpad.

Clarkesworld Magazine and anything from Skyboat Media.

Kate Baker narrates the former, Stephen Rudniki a lot of the latter’s content and both deliver sonorous, resonant readings that are easy to nod off with.

Along the same lines, but not a podcast, McFadden narrates a docuseries on all things Trek, “The Center seat”, on Amazon currently.

Credit card for the rewards, paid monthly. Keep cash for tipping and small stuff.

It all comes down to greed and enshitification in the end.

Dark mode on mobile and I missed it, apologies. I am also too used to links being below photos, but that’s no excuse.

Bloomberg’s getting hinky, try the archive version here: https://archive.ph/RzUN3

Don’t tell me. The full bibliography of Ayn Rand adorns your bookcase?

I feel your anecdotally and resemble that remark.

I also wish I lived in a more forward thinking state. /sigh

It’s significantly related to reducing consumption of regulated opioids as well.

Anyone have recommendations on a vanilla server?

Welcome, nine years+ on the same platform before making the change.

So far? Lemmy over the alternative, hands down.

Sadly, any time a politician says the words “children” and “online” together today, another chunk of your digital freedom’s likely on the chopping block.