Newsletters? Google killed RSS so we could have newsletters?

No, I said, “I like the slacks you’re wearing.” They would go nicely with a red hat.

I think the way to make it work is to have each instance represent a “world” and you only have stats and equipment within a world. Then when you cross over to another instance you are now subject to that instance’s ruleset.

It wouldn’t be so much a federated MMO but more like a large variety of games connected geographically (in the virtual sense).

I’m trying to figure out what that looks like. So you mean they’re just peer to peer? I’d be interested to see one of those, sounds cool.

I’m not sure PixelFed is the best choice for private storage of photos. It’s social media more than it is cloud storage.

Would Immich fit your requirements? I don’t think it encrypts either, but you can self-host it.

Same.

.ml has been loading slowly, and then the image thumbnails take even longer.

Is the whole network under a DDoS or something?

At least you learned the lesson.

also, Fuck anything predicated on being popular. We can exist without constantly competing for a popularity contest.

Fuck Bluesky and Fuck popular music.

One thing about Cory’s books is that there is always some extremely cringe party section with some rather forced romance part screaming “how do you do fellow kids?” even to me, a middle aged guy himself.

How is that relevant to this post?