Before June 2023, I was a mod on several Reddit communities for about 13 years and outside of Reddit since the turn of the century. I just kinda stepped back once the Reddit BS happened.

10 months later, my happiness and over all quality of life has improved. Not only am I no longer stressed (bye bye moderation based nightmares!), but I have way more time to dedicate to my passions and goals.

I thought that dedication to holding together a few niche communities and battling the "bad guys" defined me and gave me a sort of immortality.

I was VERY wrong.

Our great grand kids won't be trolling reddit archives, telling everyone how "cool" grandpa was.

The greatest thing I ever did to improve my QOL was step away from moderating and leading communities on the internet as a whole. Doubly so if they involve political talk.

Random computer quirks always fascinate me. The strangest one I had involved a computer that shouldn't have existed.

One time in the early aughts I had a patchwork computer that I put together from the junk pile of a local computer store that a buddy of mine ran.

It was barely holding together in a rusty frame, with zip ties and wood glue.

Its modem was temperamental as hell. It would only stay online so long as it was pinging a website via command prompt. It was only some websites, too. Like I could ping Geocities, but not livejournel.

I remember many weekends doing Mephisto runs in Diablo II, praying that my command prompt doesn't bug out anytime I'd get anything worthwhile.

Ublock Origin and SponsorBlock and Enhancer for YouTube will make the YouTube experience SO MUCH better!

Ublock blocks ads, SponsorBlock blocks sponsorship deals that the YouTuber includes (Clash of clans, Norton, etc), and Enhancer lets you play with the settings on a whole other level, including blocking things like end cards.

This really has me wondering how many people are doing the same thing but haven't been caught.

Once it fails then someone will buy it cheap and rename it twitter.

This is literal insanity.

Are they going to put Mexican Americans in internment camps next?

I refuse to go back to reddit.

There is a good reason we all left

If they had read a few more books on survival, this would have been prevented.

Usually those books tell you that you need provisions through winter and if you don't, you need to get those provisions from someplace.

Nobody typically lives 100% off the grid the first year or more unless they're a super expert.

A visit to Colorado really brings out the kid in you

I don't believe that it's discriminatory when I say that people with severe neurological disorders and dementia shouldn't be making laws.

We all want to have an immortal legacy. Any good he's ever done is going to be overshadowed.

You can build 1000 bridges and fuck one clown. You won't be known as a bridge builder but a clown fucker.

Someone should answer the phone because we all fucking called it.

What's next in the Reddit bingo?

The removal of old reddit?

Limiting the number of posts we can see per day as a normal user?

Buy upvotes?

The slippery slope logical fallacy doesn't count when there is actual factual evidence.