I’m definitely not the one to ask.

I said this a while ago on another thread, but if I was a Dev on the project I would be working to create a website that automatically signs you up for an instance. The high level concept is instances would opt into this pool, the user would simply put in their username like any regular website, and then the system would create them an account on whichever instance was best for them (maybe based on ping/trying to spread population around).

This would majorly reduce the barrier to entry in my opinion, because a lot of people just want to browse, and don’t care about the federation aspect at all.

I don’t think it’s weird. Right now it probably isn’t great cause the pool of commenters is already small, and this dilutes it further, but I think in a world where we had plenty of people in all those communities it would be fine.

It does suck on the posting aide, though, and it also seems like there might be some use to a tool/feature that merges them somehow so you’re viewing it all together and respond to whoever you like in one place.

I have a mostly politics free feed that I’ve cultivated. Some always leaks in here and there, but if it’s an account that only posts that kind of content I just block them.

I definitely can see how relentless the politics posting is when I go to all, though.

Does Shogun count? Its new and quite good

I don’t know if they will be a good choice for where you live, but look up “Sur La Table”. They’re a high end cooking supply store from my area and they do ship. It’s going to be pricier than Amazon, but they only sell good stuff.,

Rain outside my window in the garden. Maybe not the MOST, but it’s up there.

I recently got an Asus zenfone 10. I usually buy midrange phones but this time I couldn’t find a good one. I like small phones, and they seem to be an endangered species these days. This one also has a headphone jack which is nice.

Oh wow, that sounds like a great example

“Hello, IRS? Yes, I’d like to cancel my tax subscription, please.”

Inkarnate. It’s a tool for making fantasy maps for those who haven’t heard of it. I think they have an extremely reasonable price per year for it.

There can be more than one problem.

I end up there sometimes but I don’t seek it out anymore. I don’t have the app on my phone.

A lot of older tech had a way more interesting silhouette. You can see this clearly in how many objects live on in icon form. We still often use handset phones, magnifying glasses, gears, or the infamous floppy disk save icon. I think the staying power of these really comes from how ephemeral and formless digital tech can be.

I think I’d have to see examples to give you a real answer, but I think one thing you see a lot with Canva is pieces built by skilled designers slapped together by someone who might not even be artistic at all.

I’m a designer myself, and I’ve had many times that clients have tried to do something in Canva, only to get stumped on why they can’t get it to look good. It’s usually stuff like bad hierarchy (the relative prominence of different elements to each other) and bad composition. You can have the most beautiful stock art pieces in the world, but they won’t fix your composition.

Are you talking about Canva? You keep saying canvas so I’m not sure.

Nice call out on rice milk straight. I do think it has a nice subtle sweetness to it the others don’t.

Really interesting reading your follow up post in here. It’s so incredible to hear about how differently people can think.

I imagined the scene in detail, but to pay attention to all the details I had to think back to it and examine each part of what I imagined, if that makes any sense.

I pictured a side camera angle with a white metal table and a light blue wall behind. The ball was a soccer ball, and it was pushed by a woman’s hand wearing a gray knit sweater. Only the hand and forearm are “in frame”. Her arm comes in from the right side and pushes the ball to the left, rolling it across the table.

That’s some lovely oregano OP

Apparently the firm who designed it also be designed the Burj Kalifa in Dubai