Clean the touchable surfaces on your devices and device keyboards.

Walking every street in my giant suburban section of L.A, picking up litter as I go. 3 years, and 1,200-ish miles so far. And probably thousands of pounds of trash.

subscription fatigue is real.

I LOL'd at that phrase. So true. That being said, $17/yr feels pretty reasonable to me.

So far, I'm seeing placeholders for ads in my feed--but no actual ads. But I have multiple layers of adblocking set up at home, so...

Just looked it up: 11 years.

I was very proud of "my" sub over there (sole active mod and most consistent poster). 11K+ subscribers and personally acknowledged by the author of a recent book on the subject of our sub.

Something died in me just before and during the blackout. I haven't posted anything over there since, and of the 11K subscribers, it's possible NONE of them followed my migration to the Fediverse where I set up an equivalent "official" sublemmy.

Once you know what you know (at least for some of us), it's just not the same participating in that space any longer.

I keep an eye on the place out of respect to...something. (I feel like I cleaned the place up nicely, and really raised the level of discourse.)

I guess I was naive in the extreme to think that at least a couple of hundred of the faithful would follow me over here? I don't do it for the numbers, but there is something gratifying watching your community grow.

At this writing, the new sub has double-digit followers! ;-P

I think about the "zero consequences" thing a lot. I help run the local farmers' market, and recently our city has stepped up parking enforcement. (As a "rule-follower", I celebrated the change.) Our customers are howling at the parking tickets they're getting. They come to the market Info Booth to complain to us--as if it were our responsibility somehow.

Works for me! Let us know when it's ready to test drive...

I didn't know this either.

"Google launched the WebP format as part of its mission to make loading times faster across the internet. WebP allows websites to display high-quality images — but with much smaller file sizes than traditional formats such as PNG and JPEG."

Another hand in the air for Feedly.

That was my very first thought. "Huh. I guess we've arrived..."

Yeah, I'm gonna need to see the paperwork on that....

typo intended...? 😁

I totally believe this. Exactly zero of the 11K subscribers of the sub I mod have followed me over to the fediverse--despite a third of them 'supporting' the idea of keeping the sub dark.

Still deciding if I should just be an 'absentee mod' (not post anything personally, but keep things reasonably orderly) or let someone else mod it and move on. I just cant, in good conscience, 'return to normal'.