I was developing 30 years ago and I love what’s available today. Nostalgia is fine, as far as it goes, but things change and sometimes for the better. This is one of those cases.

It was fine when it was someone else’s kid, though. You should be able to feel this outrage when it happens to anyone, anywhere. But that’s seldom how it goes.

I look forward to the AIs trained primarily on marketing posts.

If there was something I wanted to be able to do that I can’t do now because I lack the intelligence to do I’d push the button just enough to get to that level. Otherwise, what would be the point?

I didn’t take me more than a day to learn (I don’t understand) React.

You have no tasks, there’s nothing to manage. I’d say you’re done for the day.

Are we certain the Muskrat isn’t involved with Reddit in some way or is it just u/spez emulating his hero?

It’s like there’s a contest to see which site can do the most awful fucking thing possible to their users and Reddit is prepared to do whatever it takes to win.

That’s what I’ve experienced as well. My home feed is stagnant and r/all has lots of subs I’ve never seen. I spend much less time there and I’ve stopped upvoting anything. I dropped Premium in June since it’s clear /u/spez doesn’t need the money anymore now that 3rd party apps aren’t sucking him dry.

You can subscribe to an account on another instance, but you can’t get all of the posts on another instance without having an account on that instance.

The big social media platforms made it easy to join and easy enough for your parents and friends to use even if they weren’t techies. The Fediverse isn’t hard to join, in the sense you can easily create an account some place, but it tends to be narrowly focused. Trying to explain to grandma that she needs to join a Mastodon instance for sewing but a different instance for knitting is going to be difficult when she can stay on Facebook and have both in one place. Something like Lemmy does help in these cases in the sense that there are multiple communities available to you from a single account. But that “everyone I know is here” feeling seems like it’s going to be a thing of the past.

Your data, being in Markdown format, is portable to anything that can handle the format so should Obsidian change its policies or make the app itself paid you’re not SOL. But you will lose the functionality that Obsidian and its plugins provide, which could make that data less valuable to you in the short term. Nothing’s perfect.