southsamurai

Sure. There's a rather vibrant writers' community, plenty of visual artists (including photography that isn't just cats and hiking), and the endless political shit.

You don't get as much of the random people running their mouths though.

The key to Mastodon is the # curation over time. Search your interests, use the hashtags to set up your feed, and only use the full federated feed to find terms you didn't think to search for, or that aren't obviously connected to your interests.

As an example, if you're a writer, you'll obviously follow something lunge #writing, but you might not find #pennedpossibilities, or #writerscoffeeclub by searching, despite them being active prompt based groups that end up having a lot of good interactions between writers (casual, amateurs, and pros).

Tbh, the least represented segment is the typically nerdy stuff. Much more prevalent on lemmy. There's plenty there, it just isn't as common as other segments.

Dude, I am happy as hell for you that it took this long to experience one.

It's easy when you use the same password for encoding everything.

Pulled this one just now. Got a giggle

Success!

The double meaning works in English quite well.

Well, it's one of those things where you either learn to compartmentalize, or you quit fast.

I moderated forums back in the early days of the internet. It was rough some days, to the point I had someone show up at my house because I wouldn't let them abuse other users.

I moderated on reddit, and it was both easier and worse. People like to complain, but automod being able to filter out so much of the worst without having to see it at all made the job bearable. If I'd had to wade through the bigotry, the worst slurs, and similar stuff that a well crafted automod rule could magic away, I wouldn't have done it at all.

But the fact that you have to constantly adjust the automod to catch up with the most persistent assholes is draining.

And that's not getting into the stuff that isn't hate speech, misogyny, bigotry, and that kind of infection. People think they can say anything they want, any way they want, and you stopping them means you're the asshole, even after that went on a rant about fucking someone's wife and kids (seriously, that's a ban I had to make) because someone didn't agree with their opinion of a flashlight. Seriously, that fucking happened.

Point being that while there are mods that go too far, the internet, and places like reddit or lemmy, would be unbearable without it. There has to be someone making those calls, keeping things from turning into the non stop scroll of venom and porn that used to be way too common back in the day.

Right now, nothing tops paprika.

It's relatively expensive, even more so if you want it on multiple platforms as each one is a new purchase.

But there's simply nothing out there better, period, much less on android. Better organization, better webclipping, better editing, better everything.

I tried every android recipe manager, and most of the windows based ones, plus some on iOS since my wife has the one flaw of preferring that (just joking, I ain't mad at people preferring a brand) ecosystem.

Nothing could do everything paprika could do, and most of them didn't do any single thing better.

That looks like my rooster lol

This is why I've started blasting the fuck out of every one of them. You do enough cursing and insulting, they tend to actually stop texting and calling. I got sick of having to tell them to fucking stop the spam, which didn't work. But, amazingly, after a few days of going batshit on every one of them, they've stopped almost entirely. No texts at all in three days for me, though my wife and dad still get them.

Unless I misread, the point isn't leaving bad reviews, it's making fake good reviews for a chain restaurant.

The way it's being done is intended to stymie outsiders from crowding out locals.

Now, I agree that it is going to make competition harder for the non-chain restaurants the fake reviews are supposed to be isolating from tourist and traveller customers. It's still a shitty move that hurts the local businesses. But it isn't the same thing as actively trying to tank them. It's a quibble about wording though, not a disagreement with your actual point.

I'm way less worried about bluesky as opposed to threads. If anything, it serves as a healthy competitor to mastodon in terms of how it would require a bridge to interact. You have to go out of your way to make it happen.

But threads is pulling a EEE, and it's obvious that's the goal.

That it started out enshittified, and things can only get worse with VC being involved deeper.

Well, I dunno if that's what they meant, but that sure as heck is the reality of it