People have trouble installing Windows? You enter a license key and click next a couple times.

Another helpful community lost to the data blackhole that is Discord :(

The best argument I’ve hard in favor of dealers is that they introduce competition in sales of a single brand of vehicle. Instead of Ford having a monopoly on Ford vehicles and selling for MSRP only, you can shop around Ford dealerships that all sell the same product but have to compete with eachother on price or whatever.

That system starts to break down when, like in recent years, dealerships collectively decide to stop selling vehicles for MSRP or below and all tack on thousands of bullshit dealership markup fees. Also dealerships are exclusively run by scum of the Earth which massively taints the entire car shopping experience.

If you’re a mod on any sub you can still see nsfw content on any other sub?

Me thinks you right. Hope stay good!

Thank you! My favorite RSS app got suddenly over run by ads a few years ago. I’ve been lacking a replacement ever since. Feeder is exactly what I needed!

One person on your instance needs to join for the community to appear. That is the major benefit of joining a large instance, you don’t need to search other instances or use 3rd party tools to find new communities.

This article explains it pretty well. Though it focuses on Mastodon and similar Twitter clones, which all suffer from being clones of a dog shit idea for social media.

Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out

Largest shortcoming is that in order to see any content, you (or someone else on your instance) needs to follow someone/thing else from a different instance, and the only way to do that is to pour over hundreds or thousands of other websites. This means that objectively, the best experience for a new user is to join the largest instance available, which kind of defeats the purpose of federation. Also, 99%+ of users couldn’t care less about federation and there aren’t (m)any other selling points so nobody cares to leave the platforms they’re already established on.