It's definitely all of the above.

Hexbear is particularly vexing to me. According to the fediverse observer they're less than a month old and yet have already become one of the most active instances.

outside of running your own instance, asking your instance's owner to block them, or joining one that already has the offender on the blocklist, no. It's requested a lot though so it's probably on the todo list

of course the one person in europe who owns a pickup would park it on the sidewalk

the only restaurant chili with cinnamon is skyline, which is specifically why i dont like it

finish reading the comment, theyre not the same

i mean it's spiced differently and usually has beans but the main ingredient is still tomatoes. not that different from having a meat sauce

Maybe I've just spent too long arguing with aholes on the internet but to me calling someone "friend" comes across as very sarcastic and condescending

Edit, it's like calling someone you don't know "buddy" or "pal"

idk, im surprised it took this long. there's a huge variety of admin teams with varying degrees of security awareness and it's been over a month since the first big influx of users started. it'll happen again too and probably not before too long

idk the whole idea of a test is to demonstrate understanding, which this doesn't. i feel like a good teacher wouldnt take off points, but would have to pull the student aside and be like "ok now circle the tens place, hundreds place, etc"

"Vitamin" is basically the 19th century's idea of a sciencey word for "nutrients." I mean heck, half the "vitamin Bs" aren't even related to each other at all

In our current unparalleled enterprise, refusal to switch platforms is simply a refusal to grow—an insistence on watching ads, if you will. Did the Digg user refuse to Reddit? It did not. It crept forth boldly while its brethren remained in the blackest ocean abyss, with lidless eyes forever staring at the dark, ignorant and doomed despite their eternal vigilance. Would we model ourselves on the Facebook user?

tbf people just wanna sign up and click on funny links, not browse through 100 rando instances to find the one that lines up with their exact interests and wait for approval and worry about uptime and whether their instance will still exist in a year