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.

What, now?

Just.don’t.go.

Watch the fun.

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.

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

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.

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

Always somebody else supporting this schmuck, never do we hear of him actually paying for something or taking personal responsibility.

Gear on the cheap?

If you’re patient and can self-support, your local non-profits and their online stores may be useful.

It’s rare to see big gear NIB, but it does happen; have seen rack mount Cyberpower, 10 outlet, hi-watt units, IOB going for around $200+ in the last 6 months. Picked up a previous generation, 5 disk NAS for a tenth of its retail price, used.

You’re north of my border so my sites won’t work for you, but seriously, look into any Goodwill/Salvation Army type organizations, and don’t neglect local, they can be rewarding too.

GL&HF!

Traversing web and ftp sites by simple, progressive, suffix removal from the address. Sometimes very interesting what showed up that way. Security was spotty, an afterthought often.

Sorry, that sounds like a version of trickle down economics, which we know never did.

Really?

Commercially insured here.

I have to jump thru hoops, wait, and pay a significantly higher out of pocket for any imaging outside of X-rays. Due to my employer, I am locked into a single provider. Sure, I can (and do) have supplementary insurance, but FFS why is that even necessary?

The answer to all of the above, IMO?

Corporate greed, enabled by government intervention.

The Affordable Care Act isn’t our real problem, we can lay that at the feet of Richard Nixon .

edit: word order

What? The Pentagon engaged in fabrication? Tell me it’s not true. /s

Little Snitch, awesome Mac GUI firewall. UltraEdit if you code, multi platform app. A secondary browser, Safari is not enough.

Edit: forgot something for file collections; DupeGuru. FOSS, multi platform, and did I mention free?