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.

Give it to me in raw numbers, how many Americans does that really mean?

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

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.

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. 🤯

Dark mode on mobile and I missed it, apologies. I am also too used to links being below photos, but that’s no excuse.

Bloomberg’s getting hinky, try the archive version here: https://archive.ph/RzUN3

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.

Wife should return that one to sender.

Good article, right length and enough detail to suggest what a breakthrough this could be.

Fascinating to think that Parkinson’s patients neurons may be stuck decelerating constantly.

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.