Update (9/11/23): A TikTok spokesperson told Media Matters that “WGA has been inadvertently blocked as part of the platforms’ protections against QAnon conspiracy theories.” Searches for “WGA” and related terms now appear to function normally.

take a cold shower

Well umm, that’s kinda the trick. In Phoenix in summertime, “cold” water is cold in name only. It’s more tepid than anything. That’s just another part of what makes it so oppressive living there in summer.

Yeah, this is simply how federating works, but the user experience of seeing the same thread across multiple subs, across multiple instances, does not make for a great user experience.

The other troublesome thing is that I feel like I’m spending an increasing amount of time every visit blocking little unwanted one-off communities. It was also a challenge on Reddit too, but here you’ve got the additional complication of each instance spinning up its own multiverse of madness.

Hey uhh that’s not very Don’t Be Evil of them.

Old MacBooks and PC laptops can be turned into Chromebooks, which could address several of the concerns. Google freely offers ChromeOS Flex, which does the switch-over.

Galaxybrain solution: Maybe they could release a version of ChromeOS Flex which allows old Chromebooks to also be used as Chromebooks.

Yeah, uhh we had that in the 1990s and it sucked:

Why do one thing poorly when you can do a whole bunch of different things even worse.