To quote my well known journalist friend after switching from twitter “what’s that? Oh, that open source stuff? Hahaha nah bruh, mastodon is silly”

Your username… are you a teacher in the Bay?

I used to hate them for being slow and annoying. Now they drive like us and I hate them for being dicks. This morning, one of them made an insane move that only the worst Audi drivers in my area do, a massive left over a solid yellow across no stop sign with me coming right at it before it even began acceleration into the intersection.

Almost downvoted instinctually as a reaction to the headline. Visceral reaction. I hate this beyond belief.

I don’t know. Last time I used it was maintained. Seems like a security vulnerability running something this critical out of date, no?

ADHD and not technical by trade so it’s not in my DNA to remember

Is that a Hyrulian glyph?

And we still pay the vig to AdWords or does all my money go to LinkedIn now?

Not a comment on the merit of the article, but a tangential thought: Fediverse has presented the same amount of doom to scroll as the algorithms. I open my phone to get a break from work, life, etc, and any app I think to open for social or news, presents the same anxiety of “I just can’t deal with that type of shit right now; where can I bury my head in the sand?”