Opt out telemetry is annoying. There’s no guarantee it doesn’t send before I’ve had a chance to disable.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t had to use both!

I miss that ringtone though.

I feel you, but Mastodon has about 9 million users and BlueSky has 15 million (if the first results from a search index are to be trusted), but I could not find anywhere even close to 60% of the people in this hobby on Mastodon as I have on BlueSky.

There was a very concentrated push recently of artists (I think it was artists originally) to go to BlueSky and it’s sort of echoed into similarish hobbies. So that’s probably why the user makeup is a little different.

Not enough people on Mastodon are into the things I was using Twitter/use BlueSky for.

For me there weren’t enough people on Mastodon in my hobby to make it worthwhile.

I use(d) Twitter for niche interactive hobbies that didn’t have enough people on Mastodon to engage with.

Some professors are just so wack… Like, if I copy your notes verbatim I’m also “stealing” your intellectual property just as much as taking a photo.

Compare this to one of my college professors who would come in, Google the topic, find another universities notes to use, and then complain about them. Worst teacher ever. (He literally fell asleep during students’ presentations and then berated them about weird minute details.)

Wasn’t it like Napster in that originally it was for pirating text books?

No, I mean videos I’m watching. Let me pay the fraction of a cent myself.

Try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/

Right, but I don’t trust them as a result and I don’t feel comfortable recommending them or not pointing it out. Meddling with links you click is malware behavior.

Natalie Cole’s version of this does this at the end.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6duQOU1agBhIZy09WXam0e

I find it infuriating that the “free market” doesn’t let me bid on an empty ad slot on my own videos and instead makes me pay a flat rate monthly fee.

I consider browser ab blocking a reasonable accomodation for ADHD and I’m not even joking. I haven’t had to ask for this yet but, seriously. Banner ads are extremely distracting.

No. Brave has a history of modifying links you click on to add affiliate information. The only time to use Brave is if user agent spoofing for “chrome only” websites doesn’t make it work.

I never said it wasn’t morally reprehensible. Only that it’s less morally reprehensible than something like making weapons.

Yeah, I don’t really get the argument here. As much as it sucks, it’s not nearly as morally reprehensible as something like weapons. If you don’t do it someone else will. It’s not something a handful of devs are gonna make a difference in by boycotting and it isn’t worth being fired over or not accepting a job over.

“Babe, hold on, I need to send a text,”