Yeah, but old browser extension has let me block all advertisers (and all of them are equally my most-hated) forever, so reddit is cordially invited to get fucked. And they can construe that as ‘encouraging violence’ all they like.

Inertia, convenience of what you’re used to, and all of your friends are over there and have never heard of ‘the fediverse’.

Do you play video games? Read books? Play tabletop roleplaying games? Knit? There are public and private discord communities for all of those things and more. Go find one and join it. I lost my two closest friends who I had known for almost 3 decades in a couple of years apart and realized that without those two I didn’t really have any other friends that I hung out and spent time with, and I started really feeling lonely, and I’m practically a shut-in and don’t make friends easily either. Fortunately I lucked into two things that made a world of difference: a couple of TTRPG discords that I am now decent to good friends with all of the members, and a private gaming community. Between them they have about 350 people in them, and I have made a point of hanging out with them and trying to make friends, and I’ve met quite a few people I get along with really well, and I always have people to play tabletop or video games with.

Fetterman is not a democrat, I don’t care what letter he puts in front of his name. I’d be curious to see what these folks’ reason for voting for this is, because it’s been made abundantly clear over the last 20 years or so that neither party gives a shit about shutting down the government to get what they want.

I dunno who that guy is, but every time I see his face all I can think is…

Iono, I would normally say a deep forest green, but I have recently been growing in appreciation of purple.

I was perma-banned 11 hours before my temp-ban appeal was lifted. Then I was unbanned, but they sent a message saying my ban would stay. I think they’re just falling over themselves in their headlong rush to embrace fascism.

Yeah, it’s still set as my default for handling PDFs, so I keep opening them in there and then copying the address over to chrome by hand because I’m too lazy to go find the default app settings.

I live in Texas, all of my representatives are boot-licking pro-Trump Republicans.

I did say I thought I was going to switch…

I did say I think I was gonna switch.

Indeed. The enshittification of the internet proceeds apace.

What happened in July 2023? Was that the APIpocalypse? That didn’t really affect me cause I barely use mobile.

Yeah, those mofos are just batshit now.

I heard some grocery chain was experimenting with rfid chips on all their products so you can just load up and leave and sensors at the door detect what you’re carrying and charge you the appropriate amount automatically. Personally I’d rather pull up to a register and have it show me a list of what’s in my cart and the total price rather than automatically charging, but otherwise it’s not a bad idea.

Ah, fair enough, thanks! // Yeah I looked into Hexbear briefly and it didn’t seem like my jam, but I’ll check out slrpnk and dbzer0.

Yeah, they’re too busy handwringing, crying about how little power they have, and bitching because their constituents keep expecting them to stand up against bullshit like this.

The obvious choice here is to get vaccinated if you’re not.

Oh not in this instance, but I definitely have before.

o7