Torque sensors are absolutely awesome.

Always go for the torque sensor. Nobody is going to prefer a cadence sensor over a torque sensor.

[The legislation, he added, was also about “putting more joy into the world."]

Politicians in Texas never, ever, have this as an objective.

Anybody can do that. Doesn't have to be a mod.

An empty magazine under control of a name squatter isn't desirable to post to

Who cares who the mod is? If you want to post than post. I never think about whether it is "desirable" to post somewhere.

I’ve seen lots of people say “federation is like email”, but to me it’s like Usenet.

It is a lot like Usenet, but Usenet has some superior features.

1. Discussion groups are automatically merged across all servers. So it is decentralized but does not feel decentralized.

2. Newreaders only show you content that you have not already read/seen

3. Readers let you kill articles in subscribed newsgroups and threads within subscribed newsgroup articles so that you don't see them in the future.

Asking someone to download and install a Usenet client then set it up to connect to a server of their choice and then subscribing to newsgroups is way above and beyond what most people are willing to do in 2023, sadly.

This is not true at all. People download phone clients all the time. And there were also Usenet web clients. Subscribing to newsgroups is exactly the same as subscribing to subreddets or kbin magazines. And you have to pick a server for Fedverse also, but the the Usenet server doesn't matter at all like a Fedverse server does.

The only reason people don't use Usenet is because the free servers disappeared and ISPs no longer provided it with your internet service.

Reddit has been bloating itself with new features that nobody has been asking for

Exactly. Almost all their "exiting new features" have been subtracting value and turning the site into shit. That's why I left, not because I care about the API. I don't understand why they kept paying people to make reddit worse. They should roll back their source code to 10 years earlier.

I still think that the best move is to leave Reddit for alternatives

Me too. I am actually tiring of all these Reddit 'call to arms'. Just leave Reddit already.

It is likely that Reddit helpfully "connected" your account to a strangers account and then that stranger got banned with or without valid cause.

I am staying away from beehaw for that very reason. I regard them as a local bbs.

That is awesome but is it affected by the api policy changes?