i had this exact issue until i wiped my machine this summer and it refreshed into a full win11 after the crowdstrike debacle

i hate ms with every fiber of my being, but teams has gotten better. it used to be practically unusable. now its just mostly so

brazil jumped from twitter, that was a huge part of it. the election caused another wave.

bluesky is just twitter with faux-federation. it will end up with the same issues eventually when its board decides to recoup.

yes, its a chicken and egg problem and a huge hurdle for literally anyone trying to create new platforms.

its about feature parity (even if they dont really exist, re:account portability), marketing among other things. bluesky is run buy a bunch of big names who were able to draw an initial load of users which got their ball rolling.

its about blueskys volume reaching a ‘critical mass’ which will continue to then draw users.

huge groups (recently, brazil) moved there en-masse because it already had a ton of users.

its the same reason twiiter even still has users… they dont want to leave that volume of subscribers.

not in my experience working for a large district (50+ buildings).

we have infantalized children all the way through high school. no more open campuses, nothing. we live in a world where an 18 year old high school senior has to ask to use the restroom during the day, but could go to her night job as a porn star.

the main issue is parents suing school districts over any little thing, requiring them now to lock everyone down or else

ive never lived in a house or apt without one. they seem ubiquitous to me. seems weird there wouldnt be one.

mbin only. i prefer the threadiverse

gotta maintain that backwards compatible enshitification

yeah cuz what we need is more advertising.pfft.

i really like the idea of civilization… but its so freakin scripted it feels like im playin someone elses story.

totk is almost a masterpiece, i would not hate more of that kind of game play/world experience.

makes your scalp itch too.

duude i totally forgot they hid it behind the counter.

i grew up being able to buy full bottles of almost pure ephedrine billed as a ‘stay awake’ thing for truckers and the like. like no-doze

funny considering they caused the use of this garbage because we cant have real ephedrine cuz tweakers.

was anyone under the delusion this shit worked?

pfft. sometimes its worth the 5$ to not have to slow down to cafe speed. and i like fast food, its designed to be overtly tasty

dont worry, im sure theyve designated some… reservations… where they can build a casino or something

reddit used to release page-views and maybe user info (i forget) annually.

there was a bunch of users that jumped over to digg, but they continued to also use reddit. when digg died there was a small bump of digg users, but i dont recall anything noticable in the big subs

haha this is not true… dude i was there, digg came/went and little impact on reddits user base

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