Network effect and the path of least resistance.
People usually resist change until there’s a net and obvious gain, or when thing don’t work as expected anymore.
And you need to consider that what’s important in a messaging platform for someone, might be vastly different for another.
And more importantly, good OPSEC.
Age-gate
Aurora is my go-to nowadays
Maybe Nebula as a mirror? It’s subscription-based, but I rather put my money there and watch the content ad-free than giving Google my money or ad views.
Legal Eagle, Practical Engineering and some others are putting their video a bit early there compared to their YouTube channels as an incentive to subscribe, and you can often get the yearly subscription 50% off.
And for Linux handhelds there’s PortMaster to easily use some of them on the go.
Handling payments like this puts the responsibility of dealing with fraud at Valve’s level and significantly increase their workload, instead of being the payment processor’s responsibility.
I don’t blame Valve not wanting to deal with this.
IPFS with MFS to ensure you can update your website after publishing and your choice of static website generator could be a way of doing it.
Leaving a shopping cart in a parking space instead of bringing it back to the cart shelter.
He used the onion address, which doesn’t go through an exit node like regular darknet-to-clearnet traffic.
I also had all the Pebble, and technology has come a long way since.
The incoming Pebble revival uses the nRF52840 chip, which they estimate the battery life to around 30 days, from the usual 7 days.
I settled on something a bit more classic, I bought a Casio GBD-200 which has bluetooth connectivity, can display basic notifications and do some step counting. It works on a CR2032 battery that lasts about 2 years, no recharge needed.
You click on a genre and let it play mindlessly, like when listening to radio.
Try searching with the IMDB titleID instead (tt1707386)
And the house always wins.
…for the investors
I use them as coasters for drinks.
Classic skill issue
And fellow admins and mods, make sure you don’t put too much on your shoulders. Ask if you need volunteers, there are nice people out there who wants the Fediverse to thrive.
They don’t want Superman, they want Brightburn.
Even worse is that they try to gaslight society into thinking the poors are leeches and parasites on society, while it’s been them all along.