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.

Don’t take it seriously. Don’t put up with toxicity. Don’t be afraid to do without.

Dunno why this would rate a down doot, it’s a little fluffy, but mildly informative.

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.

In a term? Dominion mentality. Add a little master/servant hierarchy, a pinch of patriarchy and stir well.

I agree with everything you’ve said, but would add that I yearn for a return to the season length of TOS, or TNG.

These 10 episode seasons, or eight in some cases, since streaming’s become the default, are for the birds.

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.

Anyone have recommendations on a vanilla server?

^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.

Fabulous post! Loved the deets on the musical chops various cast have, as well as the roots of rhapsody to get us started.

The episode itself, which I’m watching now, is not what I expected and your post is thoroughly appreciated.

Where’s muh grizzlys?

Osmos. Become the biggest. Ambient background music, trippy game play, mobile only, AFAIK.