I sympathize. This kept me on Facebook far longer than I wanted to be. If I wanted concert dates, event invites from friends, etc, I had to use it. I cut that cord eventually, but I get invited to way less stuff than I used to.
Sounds like y'all are taking the steps needed to protect your community, even if it's a bit inconvenient.
Honestly, people committed to plans in a way they don’t now. I rarely had last minute cancellations when I was younger. Time might have been cut short or something, but people showed up. Changes of plans happened well in advance. Occasionally, I got stood up, but it was rare.
Now, I’d say probably 20-30% of the time, plans get changed last minute or more rarely, somebody bails.
Otherwise, yeah, having a mobile computer/phone in my pocket is indispensable and I’d never fully give it up.
I really love the transparency here, thank you for the update.
This is the weirdest fucking thing I've seen on the Internet in a long time.
Ahh, got it. That was my initial understanding, I overcomplicated things - still wrapping my head around federation. Thank you for the in-depth response! That's the kind of thing I've loved about this place in my short time here.
Hey, if you have time I have a second question that's only partially related - how come my comments won't post in other Beehaw communities? I've noticed that when trying to comment on posts in beehaw's lgbtq community and a few others, it just spins forever. Is this a server overload thing, or maybe some kind of safety measure because I'm new and not native to Beehaw?
Wait, so if the instance I signed up on is still federated with the blocked ones, I won't be able to interact here, even if I've never bothered using the blocked instances? Or did I misunderstand?
Thankfully for things other than books (and maybe also for books), a lot of companies offer two day shipping now. Sometimes there's an order minimum for that but I find that most of the time my purchase exceeds the order minimum anyway.
I've also been very burnt out lately and at a loss of how I can combat the alt right infiltration of everything local. This comment might be one of the most inspiring things I've read in a long time, thank you for sharing.
The Reddit deprogramming goes deep, for sure. I still find myself deleting comments here after typing them out because there is a 50/50 chance of getting abuse or arguments from someone for basically anything you post on that site.