MusketeerX

This.

I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of “never visit” sites.

In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.

But to read the odd crappy article? No I’m not disabling my ad blocker.

Nice. I’ll participate whenever I have some time.

I’m spending way more time!

I didn’t really like the community in Reddit that much. I used it more like a news feed. So I never read ‘all’, I just read my subs for a few minutes here and there, but I didn’t post and comment much.

Since coming here I post and comment a lot more. There seems to be more proper discussion here, despite being much smaller and quieter.

I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.

They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.

They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.

How are you doing that?

Do you mean just manually copying a link, switching into the Mastodon app and pasting it in, or is there a better method?

Thanks, that’s great 🙂

To never make any resolutions ever again.

So far it’s going well 👍🏻

How do you filter for English?

I sometimes get a bunch of Dutch and German posts. They seem to come in waves. My high school German from years ago is not up to the task so I’d rather filter them out!

Anna’s Archive?

https://annas-archive.org/

I only found out about it on here recently and I’ve been able to find a couple of quite obscure titles on there.

Including one that had never been released as an ebook Seems someone has scanned it.

Yes because:

1. I want to see it take off and want to do my bit
2. It feels like a more chilled environment in which to participate

Some will.

Not sure how big a number that some will be though.

For people that use 3rd party apps, suddenly they won’t work. They’ll try the Reddit app, some won’t be happy when they see how it looks and some of those will look at alternatives.

Quite possibly some users have already heard about something called Lemmy, but haven’t been bothered to leave Reddit. If their app stops working, that might be enough to make them take a look.

There will be a bit of a surge. It won’t suddenly be millions.

Connect for Lemmy. Was using Jerboa until the update made it a bit unstable with lemmy.world (until they update their end, hopefully soon).

Both pretty decent, but as a SyncForReddit refugee, I’m eagerly waiting for SyncForLemmy :)

Lol, watched a lot of Simpsons but had never seen that!

That Dialup sound.

Newsgroups.

The kick I got out of posting up my own crappy page with lots of annoying images and gifs (Geocities ftw!)

I’m screwed.

It’s 8pm on a Sunday and I’m stuck in hospital temporarily unable to walk, so I can’t really buy anything in the next hr :(

Guess I may as well share it with the nurses. If I can’t give it away, then maybe buy a hug from each one, or a massage, or … no let’s not go there!

Anyway, better to share it than let it lapse :)

I don’t think we need it.

You can already see which posts are up/down voted. You can already check a user accounts age and post history.

I don’t need more than that.

Hey this place is supposed to be mildly infuriating, not wildly infuriating! :p

Wow.

What a nightmare this whole thing is turning out to be. I mean, imagine being the CEO right now. You want to seem strong, you don’t want to back down, but every day the chaos seems to get crazier.

Imagine the pressure right now.