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.

US Congress, or one party thereof?

With a side of hallucinations.

… 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.

Shiiiit. Bard, Chat GPT, etc., are the LLM AIs we’ve been allowed to see.

We have no clue what’s in the closet over there, let alone in the cage in the back room.

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.

It all comes down to greed and enshitification in the end.

55” infotainment screen, in a fucking vehicle? That’s what I have in my living room. 🤯

I feel your anecdotally and resemble that remark.

I also wish I lived in a more forward thinking state. /sigh

It’s significantly related to reducing consumption of regulated opioids as well.

Size matters.

Besides, Apple and Google conspi….rrr…collaborate on other projects and standards; can’t have an app queering that.

Apple has a competing Map app, just sayin’.

Can confirm, got a pop up saying same just now.

That’s a pretty broad generalization there.

What lead you to this conclusion?

Pretty much. They deliver a couple of sponsored entries per search, but even those have been occasionally productive. No harm in trying for a while, you can always change if it’s not working. GL&HF!

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