It will reduce their durability, but… Turn them inside out and tumble them with something small and hard.

This reminds me of Meetup.com dying almost everywhere except Chicago where the HQ is and everyone uses it.

Finding women for whom my appearance isn’t a dealbreaker. I have moderate to serious rosacea and acne on my face. That filters out 90%+ of women before we even speak to each other.

Instant messaging.

20 years ago, there were half a dozen competing major platforms (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, etc), like today.

The difference is that you had your choice of half a dozen clients that could each talk to ALL of the platforms. Adium, Trillian, Kopete, etc.

Today’s kids have no idea what we lost to the god of profit.

If you’re at least a 4/10 woman or an 8/10 man, they are pretty effective. For the rest of us, not so much.

Who runs their email servers? You can outsource fediverse server hosting too…

Web of trust is the solution. Show me vote totals that only count people I trust, 90% of people they trust, 81% of people they trust, etc. (0.9 multiplier should be configurable if possible!)