Living in Japan, this almost didn’t register to me. I have literally never met anybody that didn’t have one. When you move out, you use your family’s old one until you can buy a newer one.

Everyone should have one, absolutely.

My country is exceptionally bad about this.

Buy a plastic package of crackers? It will be filled with smaller packages of crackers all wrapped in plastic with a plastic freshener pack for each one. I am not exaggerating. I am not sure I have ever bought something that didn’t have at least two degrees of plastic wrap.

We did stop giving plastic bags out at cashiers unless requested, but that means shitall when everything you buy is triple-wrapped to begin with.

I have been thinking about a new MBA for a while now, my laptop is secondary (I still have an Intel iMac as my main desktop) but my current one is a…2015 12 inch Macbook, so I could use the upgrade. It would actually be my first Apple Silicon machine.

However, my country’s currency is really struggling right now, so I have to pay functionally $2000 USD for one of the baseline 15 inch models, which is a lot.

Most social media.

I used to use reddit, I have moved all my presence over here. That’s about it.
I have a FB Messenger account because that is how a lot of my family keeps in touch with me, and I have this. I had a proper FB account back when I was in uni and Facebook was still only for uni students, but I think I dropped it shortly after that.

It’s not some grand principled stance, I just don’t get most of them because I am apparently an old man. Like Instagram, why do I want to share pictures with just random people? How am I networking with anybody by doing so? I honestly don’t get why it is so popular.

Mods went basically hands off, the only things they would moderate are things that broke site-wide rules like child pornography. Anything else at all was fair game. It was a pretty good view of what unmoderated reddit would look like.

After the usual threats, mods didn’t budge so were removed by admins I believe. Last I heard the place was still an unmoderated glorious trash fire.

That’s all on Twitter really. Twitter shot themselves in their one remaining good foot just as Threads was releasing, Meta couldn’t have paid for better timing.

All Twitter had to do to make Threads a pretty ineffectual launch was…nothing. They couldn’t manage that though.

I remember a sub did that, I think they had a 12 hour approval window. I forget which one, but I think reddit already came down on them.

FInding willing scabs wouldn’t be hard, finding willing competent ones would be.

Small niche subs would probably be fine, but any of the big megasubs would be a trashfire. It’s why I wish every sub did what Interestingasfuck did. They showed exactly what the sub would look like unmoderated and stuck to it.

I quite like it, I generally like how it looks, and there was less of a learning curve than I expected there to be. Things mostly work without needing you to know HOW they work (though that is fun too). I am sure it will get more active as more people move over, but it’s actually the perfect amount of activity for me right now. I can check in and there is usually some new stuff without worrying about things moving so fast that my voice gets lost in the noise.

Big plus is I can be fairly open about my leftist politics, at least around here, and not be downvoted into oblivion. Nor does everything thread even tangentially related to China devolve into racism within five posts.

Are there a couple niche communities I miss? Sure, I might recreate them myself honestly, somebody has to. Otherwise, I don’t miss much.

This literally has Pro in the name, it IS the Pro model. I imagine they want to get some devs working on this and sell it as a high-cost proof of concept, with more mass-market models further down the line.