No. Once every few years. However, the gap in service is absolute disaster in modern society. Without a phone, you can't use public transport, can't pay for parking, can't get a taxi/uber/competitor, etc. etc.

Any "progress" that makes the turnaround time longer when your phone breaks is a horrible and unacceptable downside.

Why Buy Anything Else?

It seems to be the size of an air craft carrier.

I wish "social media drama" would be somewhere else than "technology". There is nothing in this story related to technology, it's about business, people, and politics.

I for one, spent time blocking what I wanted to, to curate my feed, and it took time.

If that is your general approach, why are you suddenly so eager to hand over that responsibility to the instance owner? Why are you pushing for that instances should curate the feeds of all their users, rather than the users themselves?

Everywhere else, red means stop and green means go. Here, the creator has chosen to reverse that to emphasize that they consider blocking to be good and allowing people to connect to be bad.

No attention is needed for the instances that are marked with red. They are federating.

What a fucking hateful choice of colours. Green for blocking and red for allowing communication. Really shows what kind of perspective the creator has.

Crypto scam scum

I am not incredibly smart, but I am smart enough to be aware of my own shortcomings. And those confirm this. I do often find myself supporting irrational positions because I don't want things to go the way that lots of awful people want it to. My desire for their cause to fail is stronger than my rational ability to analyze what would actually be best. That's how the human mind works.

it was invented to be a financial transaction tool

Which it failed at

What is the advantage of your viewer over a regular browser?

Are you maybe too young to know people who were actually working at the time. Obviously the life of a high schooler wasn't very affected.

Good for you. But perhaps fuck off, because some of us lost jobs, homes, and financial stability.