I looked in on one of the subreddits I used to frequent. The moderator had posted a good explanation of what was going on, why they considered it unacceptable, and what they were going to do about it. That generated a long thread of people saying, "No one cares. You don't matter. Get over yourself. Go away." Those people have no idea about the amount of effort that volunteers make to manage things so they can live in happy ignorance.

I wish them well, but I don't want to hang out with them anymore. There are better options.

Deer used to drop off their young in our back yard to hang out with our old dog. Ash was a large and impressive shepherd mix with the most zen attitude I've ever seen in a dog. They all trusted him completely. And he did, in fact, take care of them and made sure no animals or humans bothered them.

Definitely, although it's exciting to see new communities popping up.

I'm in a short-term crunch right now and don't have time to start something, but in a week or so I will probably create at least one if no one beats me to it.

I like your suggestion that devices of that sort should be called dependent instead of smart.

This was not working for me and I finally figured out why. I was using the search under "Communities" and not the general search in the upper right. It is counter-intuitive that the communities search won't find unfederated communities while the general search will, but that is how it works.

That you all for this post. It did ultimately get me where I needed to be.

Put an announcement in the New Communities community as a starting point. You can post links about it in other places where potential members are. Telling people to leave where they are and go to your site is inherently rude, so you have to be careful and polite. Check the rules for wherever you post and get a feel for the place before you put up a link.

In the long run people will find you, but it can feel like a very long run. Particularly since you need content to attract people and you need people to generate content. There is a tipping point where it will suddenly take off. Just try to be patient until you get there.

This is probably the best possible time to start new communities. All of us fledditors are creating new accounts and looking for communities to join.

I'm not going to comment, just upvote. Wait...

And now it is fully recursive. Thanks! 🙃

Can someone tell me what the kbin microblog does? I'm still feeling my way around the features...

The marketing will be particularly ironic since nearly all of the current companies made phones with removable batteries as recently as five years ago.

I should have remembered about "drag from Start". My memory is not what it was. :-}

The explorer: shell:AppsFolder is not one I knew about, but it will certainly be useful.

Thanks to both of you for the hep!

I was using the search box above the "List of Communities" and getting no results. When I switched to clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the top of the regular page it worked. I don't know why.

The same data you use to say that programmers are overpaid could be seen as an indication that professional-level software development is more difficult than you think and warrants the higher salaries. Programming is one of those things that almost anyone can do, but relatively few can do well.

Either way, if there were people who could do it better or cheaper they would be.

Edit: In the interest of full disclosure, my view may be slanted because I am a developer. On the other hand, that means I've seen the subject from the inside.