In a word, audience. I’d prefer it if everyone went with Mastodon, but the audience on BlueSky is orders of magnitude bigger. I cross post to both, but only because I don’t trust BlueSky not to do exactly what Twitter and Meta have done eventually.

Yep, the game is rigged for the rich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yhJQ1zBEA

I have 4 kids between 16 and 6. I buy 6x 3L bottles of milk at a time and it barely lasts a week.

I know how you feel, I completely missed gossip=tea. Don’t even know where that came from, all of a sudden people are whispering about “spilling the tea” and I just had to nod politely.

It doesn’t have to be like this, America. Not only is tipping not expected in Australia, but when the “Choose tip” screen comes up on US made software, all the servers I’ve ever had skip straight through it and choose zero.

Servers deserve to be paid fairly.

I lived in China when Pizza Hut opened and it was always fun to watch Chinese people pillage the salad bar. They also had a smoked salmon pizza with wasabi mayo dressing on top. It was so good.

I used NewPipe for a while, now I’m trying out a fork called PipePipe. https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe