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.

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

… 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.

Somebody had to get the ball rolling; since on this side of the pond trolling the opposition, glad handing donors and energizing our base takes precedence over existential threats of any kind.

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.

Good article, right length and enough detail to suggest what a breakthrough this could be.

Fascinating to think that Parkinson’s patients neurons may be stuck decelerating constantly.

That’s a pretty broad generalization there.

What lead you to this conclusion?

Anyone have recommendations on a vanilla server?

^This. Leave this to the professionals. When you’ve seen one let go, it is impressive.

There are benefits?

As a US citizen, it seems like it should be relegated to the last century and not dragged any further into the future.

Joined on one instance, it went away, had to create a new account on this instance.

Finding communities and content has been challenging, at least Memmy has the number of subscribers front and center when searching.

Content depth could be better.

These are also, IMO, growing pains that will resolve over time

Missed that, thanks.

Paywalled

Hey CDE, you don’t have anything to hide, do you?

Will look for it, thanks.

Need an aquatic version for Nessie.