It's weird. Like every other thing I've seen try to break the network effect with a "same, but free" or "very slightly different" offering, there's just no momentum here.
I appreciate everyone who primarily posts here, and I'm not going anywhere, but the vast, vast, vast majority of my social connections are still on birdsite.
ICANN: "the only problem here is that users might get hopelessly confused trying to access documents and get malicious sites instead."
"There's no TECHNICAL reason we can't do this"
Maybe you are what is wrong with technology. Anyway, the tweet was from 2016 so here we are now
Look, I've only been to one con, but I've know rough demographics of the fandom.
If you want to a con and only managed to miss these people, you were trying to miss them.
Remember that Star Trek TNG episode "The Game"?
And how a bunch of us probably snarked about how that was barely a game because we were young and bad?
I'm pretty sure it might have actually been prescient
https://youtu.be/e1zHgYUE9HY
I can't go to hell - I'm all out of vacation days.
Birds are good. Computers are bad. I'm too old for this.