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.

With a side of hallucinations.

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.

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

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

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.

Steel leveling jacks, manual, center screw variety, used extensively for leveling mobile homes back in the day.

First time I used DDG to look for them, BOOM, half way down the page a manufacturer in Enid, OK. G? Literally for years kept serving me up pneumatic, expensive, industrial gear or services.

Reddit won…a reputation Pol Pot would be proud of.

Also, Elon emulation should be considered suspect behavior by now.

Caveat emptor, says the ADA:

“There may be challenges involved in controlling the shape, location and number of regrown teeth. Because the research was conducted on animal models, its applicability to humans remains uncertain, as stressed by Dr. Erinne Kennedy from the American Dental Association.”

Waiting for the first reports of unicorn spirals and Paleolithic grade protuberances from the clinical trials.

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ddg.gg for the win.

Started using them when I confronted the Google filter bubble for the first time.

But what totally sold me? DDG provided me link for a product I had searched for in vain on Google for years at that point, using the exact same query.

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.

A majority of Republicans will be nodding their heads in agreement with this bullshit.

Amazon requires DRM, which Doctorow considers anathema. Since the author won’t allow DRM on his works, Amazon refuses to sell them.

In fact, the author, in order to be found in Audible search results, penned an essay explaining how Audible rips off writers and readers. It’s called “Why None of My Audiobooks Are For Sale on Audible”.

You can read via the link following:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff