I never owned a 486 either. My first upgrade after the 286 was a Pentium.

There’s also /r/WitchesVsPatriarchy which is also very strictly woman-centered.

None of these points make any sense to me when I think about the pre-reddit internet. There were all kinds of communities everywhere on various forums across the internet. Some forums discussed specific topics, some very niche, other forums were for more general discussions. But hosting and setting up a forum was not always the easiest thing. So when reddit came, subreddits eventually replaced forums. Easy to set up, easy to discover, everything in one place.

Now the fediverse is to me pretty much like going back to the old forums, but a bit more organized. And all of the points in this article could have been made about forums if you decided to analyze forums as one big thing. But in the end, none of it has been a problem (and there are still some forums around today).

UX experience

We should shorten that to UXX

Or just go to vger.app, which defaults to lemm.ee but allows you to register and log in with a whole bunch of different instances.

It exists

aything is better as GMail, only Hotmail is worse

So yahoo mail?

Except he didn’t mention the product name anywhere in the letter. Looks like he purposefully avoided it being interpreted as an ad.

This article gives a good view from an average user’s perspective.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-tried-replacing-twitter-with-bluesky-threads-and-mastodon-heres-what-i-found/

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

For most people that’s a complication, not a bonus.

I was confused why a package manager would need to import posts from a social network.

Why name a new product the same as a very popular existing product?

kill way less people

I believe the danger axis is about danger to the passengers, not others

Perspective is off, there’s no vacuum cleaner, the couch is missing half its back and a leg.

Changing the setting from a grocery isle to an electronics department makes for a completely different story. Goes from “yeah, sure, that happened” to “perfectly credible encounter.”