RIP whatever neighbour did that’s house.

FTFY

Malcolm In The Middle - watching it (yet) again from episode 1.

Didn’t think anyone would subscribe to Pocket - a good proportion of the links require external subscriptions.

Sorry, but am not going down that route. Unless you’re telling me all the links to externals become free.

IIRC I tried a free trial of Premium but still had to subscribe to Medium etc. That put me right off. I might just as well subscribe to Medium and forget about Pocket.

I (currently, may change in the future) use Mastodon via Vivaldi Social. For me I find Mastodon as a whole rather ‘clunky’ and often when trying to reply to a post get the ‘need to sign in with xxxx.social’ message and that just puts me off using it. I don’t want to sign up on lots of different instances or whatever they are called. This may be what stops more people taking it up. I may have missed a setting somewhere that allows this, but it’s not obvious. Not come across any issues with moderation.

Don’t use Pixelfed, had a look but not that interesting. Then again I don’t use Instagram and never have used TikTok.

Haven’t used FB for years so can’t comment. Never really used Twitter.

For me Beehaw seems to have it just right.

The only other social media I use is BlueSky. I know it’s not the fediverse, but it’s much more polished and easier to use than Mastodon.

Five and a half years ago. People can change a hell of a lot in that amount of time. I know I did.

It didn’t offer many options. I was on the vegan sub(?) but they seemed to have moved lock, stock and barrel from Reddit, and you get shouted down for a different opinion to theirs.

Couldn’t see where else to put it as it didn’t give me any other options.

I was on the vegan sub but they seem to have moved lock, stock and barrel from Reddit and you have toe their line.

Yeah I get that, it’s why I don’t use FB anymore. I keep WhatsApp for close family though. They’re is no other option. And dont tell me to use text. Doesn’t cut it.

This. The average user doesn’t want to know about the workings and ‘All that technical stuff’, and why should they?

They want to click an icon and have everything and everyone there. They shouldn’t have to swap instances or what have you.

I put Mastodon on a back burner as it’s just too clunky (for me at least) and am currently interacting with people from all over on BlueSky. Half the time on Mastodon (various apps/instances, web, or browser) I couldn’t even log on.

BlueSky will probably go the way of others. Yes, there is a troll problem, and you need to be wary. But I had the same to a lesser extent on Mastodon.

In the end, I’ve had to accept my relatives, work, and old Army colleagues will never be on there, I’ve become resigned to that and keep a WhatsApp account for that reason.

Right, so we just trade in our relatives for some new ones.

That’s the attitude that puts people off.

Freeeeeeeedom!

some of which will hit earth

Hopefully in one particular spot.

Joking aside, if there is going to be a lots of debris hitting us, I wonder how much warning we’ll get.

Also if it does hit the moon, what are the chances of mankind realising once and for all that we are on a small fragile rock zipping through space and we’d be better off taking care of it instead of petty bickering about what toilets people are using?

I won’t hold my breath.

No doubt emboldened by trump, because he’ll throw Taiwan under the bus at the first opportunity.

Horrible places run by horrible people.

Lloyd Bridges clip from Airplane springs to mind.

Don’t think it was ever on TBH.

They just stopped to reload.

So no ceasefire then?

Don’t give them ideas.

Nothing wrong with being prepared.

It wouldn’t accept my real name as apparently I had an account. I had to use a fake one. It was perfectly happy.

That was a couple of years ago though.