I finally abandoned it a few weeks ago…after 21 years on the platform. That sounds insane but I have spent more than half my life with it. I happen to be exactly zuck’s age so I have seen it through every iteration, first as just a network for college, then with other colleges, the whole “poking” feature, intro of news feeds and pictures, expanding to the public…every time some big feature came out it felt invasive and wrong. Like I don’t want people to see pictures of me or know about my day…until after years… it wasn’t weird anymore. Time to go back to just not being perceived so much. It had some benefits. I do kind of miss not being able to be in touch with folks from my past. I also liked buy nothing through it. But net-net, all the harm it’s done is not worth the benefits. See the details from the latest whistleblower book - Careless People. It’s pretty bad, particularly what they were willing to do in China, custom censoring tools for CCP, handing over ALL user data to Xi and a whole lot more. They didn’t succeed in getting into China but what Zuck was willing to do has me convinced he would sell every last one of us for an ounce more of “power.” It ain’t worth it anymore.

Glad to see they still put on an amazing show. First saw Justice, geez, 17 years ago?? Has it been that long?? Maybe I gotta get my middle aged ass back to a show.

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I agree as I am one such case. I created an account like a year and a half ago and got so overwhelmed with it I just ignored it. Even the explainer I found was just too much. Finally a couple weeks ago I remembered it given all the Reddit is compromised stuff. I found my login info. I also happened to have had a gummy so I was in the right high mindset to just go down a rabbithole and finally figured it out. I still don’t really understand how Lemmy interacts with like Mastodon or Pixelfed etc.

Man I’m worried about measles in the next year. All the health departments being gutted, I don’t think we’re going to have a good tracking system to know how far and wide it’s going to spread. Big outbreak in Mexico that traces from the Texas outbreak. I am thankful that my immediate area is 95% vaccinated for MMR which should be good for herd immunity but there are a looooot of places these days that are below that. Kids don’t deserve this and they will be the ones to suffer.

Pumped for The Last of Us 2 and Andor. Andor was perhaps my favorite TV show when it came out. So many Star Wars properties didn’t seem to work for me but Andor was phenomenal. When I need some adrenaline, just gotta put on the Kino Loy jailbreak speech. One way out! One way out!

I approve of lump. Would like to touch belly but unsure of risk assessment.

The Berkeley hippies were out! Made all the faces Vance with advanceblur.com 😂

Hey thanks, I appreciate your post :)

Good glad to see some tangible numbers. I was a weekly Target shopper but haven’t been since the economic blackout day. They were actually doing some cool things after 2020, selling a lot of products from Black-owned businesses. To see them do a 180 is a stark reminder.that they’re just a business and $$$ is the name of the game. Gotta hit em all in the pocketbook, it’s the only thing they listen to.

Ok here’s another question. How does this exist financially, who pays for servers and whatnot? Believe you me I am so glad not to be assaulted by ads and whatnot but isn’t this expensive?

Ah I was wondering why that arm got amputated. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Thanks for the welcome wagon. This was the first post I clicked on. I feel like a boomer (I am not one) trying to understand the Fediverse even though I can understand how email works, somehow I can’t apply that to how it works here. Like am I supposed to be able to see Mastadon or Pixelfed content on here? What would that look like? Ok also had some weed tincture so that probably has something to do with my confusion. ¯_(ツ)_/¯