from the article:

Evernote: Acquired in January 2023, in July 2023 Bending Spoons laid off all Evernote staff and transferred the operations to Bending Spoons HQ.

Mosaic Group: Acquired in January 2024, immediately laid off all 330 staff members, folded operations into Bending Spoons HQ.

WeTransfer: Acquired in July 2024, in September 2024 laid off 75% of all staff.

MeetUp: Acquired in January 2024, in February 2024 laid off a “significant” portion of the workforce

Brightcove: Acquired in November 2024, yesterday, March 19th, laid off 2/3rds of US employees

komoot knows what they're in for

Trypophabia ⚠️

Also when I start making a sunny side up

Why doesn't trump just setup fentanyl production in the states? Seems like a easy fix for me /s

Lol Max still being salty af about the 5s penalty 😂

I'd reckon eating less in general is better for the climate our health

Money

And it's beautiful that it's with his ex team mate Lando.

As a Singaporean, I'm shook that the system can be broken so seemingly easily.

As for a human being (myself) it is hard as it is to transfer my CPF (similar to a pension fund) for payments such as housing, medical, investments etc without having a million OTPs, gov app (Singpass) verifications etc.

All things considered, $100+K out of $10M is ~1%, is not much for scam amounts lost from CPF (pension).

Damnit, price increased for me. I should've jumped at ~100 for life time, now it's 149.98.

I'm in Switzerland

It's quite telling that by having a more 'complicated' sign up process and 'how-things-work' around here is able to keep idiots off the Fediverse (for now)

And I appreciate this, which means as a potential user I need to do my own background research, look around at different sources of information, lurk for a bit, before committing to a platform. And this in and of itself, for me at least, gives me a better appreciation of the 'verse' and how I can contribute to it.

From the article "The Fediverse is not that. It’s kind of… different. I mean, the very first thing you get asked when signing up for a Fediverse platform is “Which Instance?”. The signup process in the Fediverse is more complicated than people are used to."

A counter example to this 'barrier of entry' would be threads. Super easy to join, making it almost 'stupid' not to join if you're already on IG and using Twitter, without understanding what it offers besides simply being an alternative to threads (this is where I was at, could not outweigh the cons vs twitter, thus did not join)