I don’t have any answers but I’ve been off reddit for ~3 years now and haven’t found alternatives for a lot of the communities that I miss.

Part of it is probably “be the change you want to see” but if you go looking, there are tons of communities that haven’t had posts in years because the one person that was posting finally gave up. The most active stuff here is mostly controversial news and stuff like that. With no discovery algorithm though, I may be missing some stuff that I would otherwise be interested in because I just haven’t looked for it.

Agreed. I stopped vaping a few years ago but the rhetoric around candy/fruit flavors was already starting. It was insane to listen to it like kids are the only things on the planet that enjoyed those flavors 🙄

Ah I see, thanks for the explanation!

I’m dumb so apologies but, what’s the manipulation? Stock markets have been closed all weekend including Memorial Day. How does re-igniting the war ~12 hours before it opens affect it?

Hope you feel better soon! Probably worth going to the doctor just to verify its not pneumonia or something, if you haven’t already. It can get bad quick (see Kyle Busch’s death this past week).

Does it still smell the same??

My cat woke us both up out of a dead sleep with a random hiss a few weeks ago. Felt bad that she must have had some kind of bad dream but we both fell back asleep pretty quickly.

Their Stratocaster shape is public domain in the US. They won a court case in Germany for copyright of it and immediately went after any builder selling to Germany.

It was a total asshole scumbag move. No silver lining, just finance bros destroying a brand.

now that you mention it, probably at least one more.

Depends on context really. If you’re looking for a hosted solution similar to Github, Gitlab is much more expensive. Our team was on a self-hosted version of Gitlab but needed more change control around PR reviews and merging. We moved to Github and got that for $4 per user per month where that same functionality would’ve cost ~$30 per user per month on Gitlab. That’s a crazy price difference and was easily worth the migration to Github for our use case.

ah okay, didn’t realize that. Sounds like mullvad just isn’t a good fit for my use case.

It’s probably been a year or so since I’ve given Mullvad another try, so maybe it’s time I do that soon.

I’m here because I can’t forgive reddit for what they did to Apollo. None of the communities I really want/need are actually even active on the fediverse but it’s just the best I can get without participating in the shit show that reddit has become.

I miss the reach that reddit had and I continue to hope the fediverse will get there but… after a few years I’m not as hopeful as I once was.

I really wish I could use them but it never works with my streaming services. I’ve had to stick to Proton or NordVPN for reliable streaming :(

Yeah, I would love to be able to setup something in Apple Music that would load in the NPR news breaks that happen regularly throughout the day into my music playlists.

I didn’t do it for noise initially, but I’ve become quite dependent on the fan noise from my air purifier these days.

Kids can’t actually get access to the internet on their own. You have to purchase an internet connection of some sort via a provider and kids can’t do that. Public access, like libraries, would have to use ID/age verification in person, sure. But not the general internet. That responsibility falls to the parents of the children and you can create whatever punitive laws you want to punish and hold parents accountable for preventing their kids from accessing the internet.

It’s literally the same thing we do with prescription drugs and alcohol. Some people have to lock them up, but mostly those bottles are unlocked and accessible to kids all over the world and we expect the parents to do the gatekeeping and then punish/hold the parents accountable when they don’t.

The parents have the responsibility of enforcing it and that’s it, that’s enough.

If you want to add laws to say that parents that fail to keep their kids off the internet can lose their kids, fine idgaf. Create whatever you want to hold parents accountable but as parents, this is THEIR problem.

I’m sick of this. If it’s that big of a deal, we just need to ban kids from the internet. Full stop. No intermediary measure will be good enough.

yessss old butterfingers were the best