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.

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.

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

Epstein?

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.

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?