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It feels like a wasteland. But then the tech accounts all left for mastodon. All I am left with is weird cycle rage cringe. That I try so desperately to not interact with.

I use ddg everyday and I hate it. I resort to Google shortly after. Not personalised so I guess I am missing out on decent returns.

I have no clue which previous server I signed up to. And looking through themed servers I found one with an interest, but it's hardly my only interest and was met with welcome text saying post something interesting.

Discoverability and onboarding and authentication is hard.

I remember the fluffy days of Facebook, where almost in an instant there was a wildfire of 'you might know' suggestions, from harvested addressbooks and cross referencing.

I found, and find discoverability hard on Twitter. My follow list rarely gets bumped and I am pretty clueless as to who and what is in it. I have to make an effort to grow the list.

Tweet reach may be massaged by favs, comments and retweets. Not totally sure how this is different in Mastodon.

Are we talking timeline/search promotion?

I remember email round robins pre Facebook and you did add people if you recognised them.

Directory services just got pulled as they were harvested by spammers. Not that I think this would help. You need some nudging.

If I read an article and the author had an easy lookupable and addable feed, I might note it.

You might divide that namespace greatly. The one higher up the pyramid still isn't paying 100,000 whatevera a year. In the main the vast majority of users don't give a rat's arse about the domain. But they do have trust issues. Webs of trust can ease this. And relieve you from the scam world of vanity TLDs and overpriced digital number plates.

So I read this as, I got a dataset to query and got it running locally via sqllite. But it was a limited dataset so I want to write my own dictionary.

A - aardvark...

Yeah bad example, most wiring is visible in the house. But water pipes outside. You have a point. Weirdly cut an old buried feeder out the ground today.

The untidy assortment of cabling under the living room floor sends shivers through my spine even though that's hidden. I once was a cable guy.

I use marketplace. It's buggy on mobile, didn't work for a year or so, there are scammers on there. I saw a flood of dodgey adverts over the last week. Reported, persisted. I still use of for marketplace and a forum.

The vast swathes of unused land now won't necessarily be the case in the future.

Incorporating solar into housing, like roof tiles seems like a no brainer. Energy stores like reservoirs, or flywheel tech or something else could help plug gaps.

Then there is the whole question of energy needs. Zero energy housing. And micro generation could help.

In the UK our housing and agriculture sector, uses a huge amount of energy for not a lot of gain. Given a modern country and opportunity learn from others' mistakes.

My old moan would be multi file copy to something like usb. In the end I discovered, if I create a folder on the desktop, copied items, and then copied the folder. The process was far less painful. Or just drop to the CLI and rsync. But cherry picking files to copy is a drag.

Common use case though.

On my droid about 2.5gb of garbage of a software.

And yet it almost works on Google assistant, with hardly any installation.

I too get lost from playlist and search/song wandering, but Apple isn't unique in this regard.

There is 'use as'.

But it is infuriating having to namespace your code when a folder name/heirarchy could do.