I was right there as well. I saw creators I trust putting out stuff talking about the state of social media today (Technology Connections on YouTube in particular) and that was around when I started diving back into bluesky, then after a little more reading around, mastodon and lemmy. Never looked back after that.
Fingers crossed it doesn’t end the same way
I’ve been through a rage quit and a ‘got bored of not progressing’ quit, but I’ve kept coming back to the game. I’ve finished the game on the normal difficulty, still on and off making my way to finishing it on the hardest.
Slowly grinding my way through Sifu on Master difficulty.
Yes! Been hyped for this since before the release delay. Can’t wait to see it.
Oh, that’s really cool! Thanks
Considering what brought me here, I’ll take finicky over maliciously designed any day. :)
Ah, I see. Thanks!
I think decades of minimalist, ‘intuitive’ interfaces that abstract what’s going on in the background have made us too lazy to go beyond the bare minimum to switch platforms in general.
A common criticism I saw of the fediverse was the fact that you have to decide on an instance. As if any significant part of your life doesn’t require a certain amount of research before making a decision. We all just buy the car that the dealership tells us to buy, of course.
This is such a well written piece, it’s closer to a serious article than a blogpost