At first glance I thought cow but I am confident it was intended to be a giraffe

Is “At the Codfish Ball” a pun?! 🤯

They have badges on Letterboxd and nobody minds. The problem with Twitter badges is that they previously meant something else, and they boosted paid accounts in the algorithm, and I’m they meant you were giving money to Elon.

YouTube video by Dana K White My No Mess Decluttering Method Demonstration

This is why I like Dana K. Whites’s “take it there now”, though it mostly results in me just never putting things away 😭

I do recommend at least trying it once because it’s a game-changer for some people!

youtu.be/UgPzjWyVwH0

I was previously familiar with nohello.com which is an excellent but hilariously janky website. Just became aware of nohello.net which is essentially the same thing but much better executed. I love them both.

Plus, there are other uses to having a personal domain. You can use it for your email, which means that if your email provider becomes shitty/evil you can change your email provider without changing your email address.

So I prefer for them to find ways to keep ongoing costs down, and I think outsourcing the costs of verification to users is a fair trade because most who have a need for verification are public figures who can afford it.

Anyway my opinion is: for Bluesky to do Twitter-style verification, it would take a lot of resources, not just to get it started, but high ongoing costs too. The more revenue they need to operate the more pressure there is on them to do the same shitty/evil things other social media sites do.

Can you say more about why you’d rather pay
Bluesky than a domain provider? I think that’s fine but it’s not a perspective I’ve heard before so I’m curious why.

If that use is relevant to you, you can easily obtain a domain. It’s cheap and doesn’t take long. You don’t need to make a website, you can just buy a domain and use it exclusively for Bluesky.

I don’t get why people seem to be saying, “most people don’t already have their own domain, therefore it’s unreasonable to expect people to obtain domains for Bluesky verification”.

Bluesky is a new world. Maybe you had no need for a personal domain before, but they have a new use now.

I am a nobody and I have one that I use exclusively for email!

They don’t need to already have one, they can buy one now. It takes 5 minutes.

Doesn’t have to be a whole website! You can just buy a domain and not put a website on it.

I suppose in practice I do that too, but I wanna give them a chance, so I scroll through their profile looking for original posts, but I give up pretty quick if I can’t find any!

I have reposts hidden from my feed, so the reposts themselves don’t bother me, but when I look at someone’s profile and it’s all reposts then I have no idea what I’m gonna see if I follow them!

Not a fan of the accounts that are themed to a topic such as travel, that when I make a post that is in the slightest way vaguely connected to travel, they follow me so fast it has to be automated. I’m blocking those.

Wonder if I’ll get any of them from this post.

2 nights definitely feels too short if people are spread out across the US IMO, but if everybody’s in the same region I might actually prefer it! Like if it was just an hour flight I wouldn’t mind.

I think the official work activities are the least valuable part; the most valuable is just getting everyone together in person. But it’s good to have some structured activities to facilitate mingling or people will mostly just talk to people they already know.

Oh, and the worst part was, we were expected to work Friday after getting home Thursday, possibly late at night, or use PTO! Should have just been a free day off IMO!

Plus 3 nights is so short it doesn’t feel worth it when you’re traveling cross country.

They later changed it to 3 nights which was annoying because they crammed all the work stuff into the 2 full days and moved the fun stuff to the travel days so people traveling long distances couldn’t participate!

Currently unemployed but my last company did. They were originally 4 nights so 3 full days and 2 travel days, with a mix of work related activities and fun stuff on the 3 full days. I thought it was a good balance.

It’s hard to tell if I want to follow someone back when they have 10 reposts for every original post!

Every kind of digital gift should have an option to print out a little note you can give them in person and/or a schedule send option.

Oh my gosh thank you, I’ve been doing it from setting this whole time!

Sometimes it’s easier to not have to meet up to exchange a key.

It’s annoying with things like banking and airline apps which seem to force me to update every time I use them. But it’s worth it for other apps to be able to look at the change log and decide if there are actually changes I want before updating.

I turned off automatic updates early into Musk’s tenure at Twitter. Saved my butt when my podcast app had a terrible rewrite everybody else hated. Have since deleted Twitter but I might just keep updates off forever.

Smart doors are handy for when you’re having a cat sitter or guest arriving when you’re gone. I didn’t like it when my previous apartment building installed but now that I’ve moved to a place without them I miss it!

Agree with you on the rest, though.