People have survived without tools like this for thousands upon thousands of years. I think we can afford to wait a few more until there’s a privacy-respecting method behind it. I know we won’t, but I’m sure we could have.

EU won’t get it until April.

Couldn’t I just block whatever account throws in advertising?

Or domestic?

I started using Fedia.io

As of a few minutes ago I’m getting a 502 Bad Gateway error and having flashbacks….

Not even for the betterment of humanity would I dare venture into such places…

I just made an account on Fedia, but I’ll sign up for brain bin as well later. I think my username might suit that instance.

Just made an account. I need time to go through and set up my subscriptions.

I actually miss the microblog integration on vanilla kbin, but I don’t think we’ll ever get that back.

I might just finally give up and settle on lemmy. There are a lot of really good apps for it these days.

Well I started on kbin.social, migrated to kbin.run…

Are there any other servers anyone would like me to ruin?

I downloaded and registered for a Flipboard account way back when it was first created. At that time, it was just a news aggregator that felt more like a magazine because of how the page turn animations worked. It was nice because at that time there were no issues with entire articles getting fed into the reader, and it was a dream come true for iPad users in the early days.

These days, you can only read the first few sentences of an from the app and then you have to tap a link to go to the actual, often cookie-walled, website to read any more of the article.

On top of that, people who post comments in Flipboard tend to get insanely toxic. Like facebook-levels of insane hot takes.

For those reason, I don’t really interact with it as much and I’ve considered removing it from time to time. The reason I don’t is because I’m curious about how this fediverse thing will work out for it.

I bought an Apple Watch for anything but fitness. If I happen to get a little anxiety, the watch will pipe up to mention something about my heart rate, and that usually just makes the anxiety worse.

A side thought: what would the world look like if you needed to be 18+ to make a social media account?