Good water bottles help me stay hydrated.

I have two glass bottles, which are much more durable than plastic. I suppose it’s the tempered glass. I invested in ones with nice lids. They don’t spill, but they’re easy to open.

If I fill both, then I have water without convincing myself that I can get up.

I followed the link as you suggested. I found a slight correction on the way it works.

A “shadow account” was some layperson’s attempt to describe what happened. That seemed clear to me immediately. It also seems that Threads and Instagram are much more intertwined than users expect.

I understand why this would upset people! I was furious when I tapped one screen wrong and connected my Facebook and Instagram accounts. It can’t be undone. It changed a profile picture. I didn’t quite become angry enough to delete both, but I stopped using them.

If you used your real info, you can get it deleted by pretending to live in California. I think that Meta’s compliance page is hard to find.

I’m not sure. Normally, most users would come back as you describe. But if the lack of mods gets too serious, then most users will begin to get bored or annoyed. If other platforms scale up well, boredom translates into “I heard about…”

It seems to me that ‘any news is good news’ is the X Corp strategy. Approximately once a week, Musk does something dumb that reaches multiple news outlets. Approximately once a month, that dumb thing manages to surprise me (and, apparently, the press).

Yep. It also has phrases to convince laypeople otherwise. This letter wasn’t written for the client. It was written for the news.

This fits my observations. It seems to be easier for some very small, tight-knit communities. I can see why migration would be more feasible for those.

The larger trend will probably be much slower. Lemmy and other solutions need to grow, develop, and do some search optimization. I suspect that the number of mods on Reddit will slowly go down over the next year or two. Hopefully, most will find a new landing place.

Yes. Mods form a very important minority.

I’ve seen statistics showing that most of the traffic returned. I wonder, how long will that last without good mods?

What did they do?

I live where the laws are less helpful. EU and California have the helpful ones. But as a non-resident, my understanding is that the law allows full removal of personal info. Deleting posts would be selective removal and doesn’t have the “and I live in the right place” question.

That sounds like a server error.

Don’t get me wrong. I have no doubt that Reddit has decided to go to war with any unhappy users. I have zero respect left.

Out of self-respect, I will still try to understand whether something is a bug or deliberate.

It seems to depend on the type of search. For ordinary information, I’m using DuckDuckGo. For shopping, I go to Google, but the results aren’t great. I’m undecided for serious research.

A lot of the cost is data storage. Unfortunately, I doubt any party will replace old Google.

This made me curious. A while back, I decided that I’d had enough with lousy results. I started trying different search engines, and I landed on DuckDuckGo.

After reading your comment, I went and searched the same term, grass. At the top, it showed a short section of ‘products’ and one ad. The next result was a store, then Britannica’s article on grass. Fourth result was Wikipedia.

I figure that a ‘products’ link and one ad, clearly labeled, is reasonable. After all, the search engine is free.