micro-blog-[ish]

...it would be to substitute the actual URL for the requested link text (or image) if the link's domain does not match the domain of the email's sender, the link text could still be rendered afterwards (just inert and unclickable).

"Hi, my account was created yesterday and I have 2 connections/followers, but I'm so interested in what you just posted!"

...I think it has something to do with not trusting (or feeling in control of) my commercial Android phone.

There are two kinds of people that I found.

Days, weeks, or months ago (if that's correct), I subscribed to a managed hosting service.

So maybe I'm spoiled by linux package managers, where you tell it to "upgrade" and things continue to work... to me that is just a natural expectation.

It seems like every third meeting someone is driving. Is it really worth the added risk to your life? Can you really contribute or take anything from a meeting when your attantion is so divided and you have none of your productivity tools?

There is always a LESS organized way to do something, but that's not what you want. There is also a more CLEVER way to do anything, and you don't want that either. The goal is to make things is as organized and stupidly simple as possible... so boring that opening any file at any level you sigh "yep, that's what I thought it would look like" instead of "WTF?!"

It's a feature.

I've noticed since being silenced from the lemmy[dot]world ecosystem, my sincere interest posts no longer receive all the random, bullshit, drive by downvotes they used to.

I'm sure part of it is that open-source hardware in general is "harder" to do than software, but perhaps there is something more to it... such as people generally not wanting to invest time creating a more-crappy version of a black box that already does it's thing well enough. Perhaps it is only after printers get significantly worse or more annoying that people will start investing their own time creating alternative firmware/hardware.