If voting didn't matter the fascists wouldn't be trying so hard to prevent it.

I definitely don't want to excuse how ineffective a lot of Democrats have been, but not voting isn't how you change that behavior; getting more involved is.

I believed that like 5 years ago, when S42 was "releasing next year!" Wish I could get my money back.

I think you misread the headline: "[MasterCard] announced this week that it has instructed U.S. financial institutions to stop allowing customers to use its debit cards to purchase marijuana products at cannabis stores..."

I'm definitely bad at striking conversations up with random people, so living somewhere that was walkable wasn't as magical for me as it seems to be for a lot of people here in the comments, but I will say it was definitely better. I got out more, saw people more, just generally felt like I was actually doing thing instead of just moving between my bed and office like now.

I'm sure it's not news to you, but anytime you see someone trying to squash discussion or the like with terms like "snowflake", they're just projecting and letting you know that they're fragile.

I think your car metaphor is even more apt than you meant it, as over time both car manufacturers and mobile platforms have gotten more and more hostile to users actually being able to do maintenance or self service.

I can't help but feel like a lot of the "the internet was better back in the day" is rose colored glasses. Things were just as fragmented, but were even less welcoming to our groups, there was more questionable content that people were trying to trick you into viewing. It definitely wasn't all bad, but it feels like it's coming from the same impulse as every other "things were better back in my day."

Hopefully things change for them so we can refederate, as there will be some small communities I miss on those instances. That saud I think saving the mods, admins and community greatly outweighs the impact to me.

Just remember: Only You can prevent dead communities!

Please don't rely on ChatGPT to give you real answers. Often it's right, but just as often it makes everything up. It does this because it does not know what truth/facts are, but instead knows what an answer should look like.

For Jerboa, if it's not on one of the instances it is set to open, it'll default to your browser.

They're working on expanding it past their default list, but to enable those long press on Jerboa > App Info > Open by default > toggle the enable button and turn on all the links.

Those instances will now open in Jerboa.

Yeah, I hope they're pretty much de-federated. I wish them and the users of their platform the best, but I don't want to contribute to feeding that beast.