They won’t listen to appeals anymore and haven’t for quite sometime, so appealing is just wasting time.

Spez got what he wanted, he doesn’t give a fuck about you anymore or anyone who bothers using that shitty platform.

“They got us, guys, now we need to send our best space travelers to that black hole we discovered so we can take a better picture. This random nobody online needs a good space wallpaper he’s going to have for a week on his desktop”

Depends on the subject. I do actually like to hear someone’s passion in something. I typically don’t like myself dominating a conversation all of the time, so I’m almost always tossing the chance to the other person to speak their mind. People always told me that they’re sorry for rambling but I’m encouraging it because I like to listen.

I get more tired of hearing myself talk than I do others.

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So this account is not my first rodeo. I’ve been off and on the fediverse.

I think it’s been an interesting experience. I believe there’s still more to go and be done 3 years in. I think there should be more tools available to deal with assholes than hoping and praying moderators deal with it, considering how moderators operate more on a “when I have the time to” than “I need to do this for the sake of the community I’m upholding the values of”.

Mastodon didn’t stick for me, it was too decentralized for my tastes. I haven’t tried anything else because if I didn’t like X/Instagram for example, I’m not going to like their Fediverse versions either because they’re not my platforms of choice.

I’m not paying overpriced movie tickets. They’ve lost my business there.

Disney+ - During Black Friday when they give out $5 a month for a year offers only. SiriusXM - Only when they offer $5 a month for a year deals. Netflix - Base plan only and if you’ve figured a workaround to watch it without ads. Tello - No-contract based phone plans for dirt cheap. Even better than Mint Mobile. ProtonVPN

The trick is to scour for deals and offers. Never pay full regular price for something and always cancel a few days before the due date so you’re not charged the full amount once the deal ends.

Forums were some of the ways you gather information and become part of communities. IRCs and Chat Rooms provided by Bravenet, MSN, Yahoo! and AOL were more of the real-time ways of communicating with people as well as messenger programs.

The only great nuisances we all came across were pop-up advertisements, dialog windows that’d come onto your screen to just advertise to you. Ad-blocking was just a dream in the early days which is one of the things I absolutely don’t like about the period then.

Websites had a lot of character to them, they went by themes, they decorated in kind to where you identified with it. Places like Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and video game websites all have character. These days, everything is too bland and linear.

Social media was present but it was very tolerable, it’s not as in your face and everywhere as it is today.

The internet was a thing you could actually take time away from and not feel like you’re missing anything, except for what was going on in your circle or community. It was sometimes exciting to come back after a few days to check e-mail and catch up that way. There was a nice balance to it. With everything 24/7 and how many things adapted to it where everyone has an app, it’s nauseating and tiring to interact on a constant basis.

As far as the uncensored part? There were places you just had to know access to, to see them. They weren’t that out in the open. Plus, this was pre-cyberbullying laws where, everyone could get away with dogpiling on you so that was the wild and uncensored part of it. You just had to have some thick skin or you weren’t going to have a fun time online, then again, even that has amplified where even expressing an honest non-offending opinion isn’t going to guarantee you from being interacted with some no-life piece of shit at anytime.

Over-quoted and overexposed, yes. But not terrible.

I don’t remember anyone taking a dump on this movie, unless they had no taste or humor. Everyone knew what it was about and took it for what it was worth.

Same. I don’t mind the transformers themselves, well most of them that weren’t based off of stereotypes anyways. The explosions were a bit much, to the point of comedy. I think there was like a scene where Optimus was running through Chernobyl (remembered it was from Dark of the Moon), it was just that things exploded around him anyways. It was unintentionally funny.

All and any of the human interaction and scenes, they can just go to hell. Nobody cared for them and nobody cared about Sam and his struggles.

You don’t understand rules either. Like Rule 1.

I won’t disagree that the Wachowskis had a weird way of piecing together the story. Not to mention, all of this stuff was released in one year which is impressive but also made things very convoluted.

Familiarity.

It was a pain in the ass for me to even try to get people I knew to even try Discord, if they weren’t already on it. They just love their Facebook too much to even take a moment to poke their head out and see the alternatives.

As much as it would be nice to see more activity on the Fediverse as a whole. It would all turn upside down very quick the more people jumped on and it would devolve things into a similar environment that readily accessible social media platforms have long devolved into.

I’m forever privileged to have been part of the crowd that got to know and experience the internet as it developed.

It was a much more colorful and sociable world. It was also a lot quieter, because people mostly kept to themselves and the internet wasn’t 24/7.

It’s been a reality for quite a while. It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly we started seeing these, but I reckon to guess they didn’t start being a thing until the mid-2010s. We’ve had bots before on the internet, but they were regulated to being more like assistants like on IRC channels or chat rooms. Where their purpose was to be greeters or handle tasks the moderator needed to be automated.

Sorry bruh, but I don’t think you’ve taken a closer look at where the RAM prices have gone. Do you truly believe people have that much disposable income to continually upgrade entire machines on a regular basis?

People will ultimately build a system if it will suit their needs and purposes within budget. I don’t get what is there about that to get so complicated over.

Matrix Reloaded.

Actually, people didn’t like both Reloaded and Revolutions. I think with what the lore was going with, they served the series right. I just think people had a hard time following what they were about.

I can’t defend Resurrections though.

High School diploma. I just simply knew how horrible my schooling has gotten up until graduating, that going to college wasn’t an option even if I wanted to. Extended education is not entirely off the table for me, it’s just a matter of getting in position to deal with what costs if any, comes from it.