This was super helpful, thanks!

Any recommendations on how to start finding those communities of interest on Mastodon?

Wow - thank you for this!

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I’ll have to look into that. I’ve always liked the idea of Grammarly, but it seemed like I was basically downloading a keylogger, which seemed… unwise, lol.

Yeah, that’s the unfortunate side of this.

I love the smaller community vibe, but I will admit it’s frustrating to have federation be sold as a huge advantage to users and then be cut off from like half the communities I was subscribed to in lemmy.world. They just have tons of communities that aren’t anywhere else because of how many users there are.

I get not wanting to create too many communities and have them all be empty. So that just means I have to make two accounts, along with my new Mastodon account, just to keep up with everything. Not ideal, but we’ll see how this plays out.

Edit: Reading this over, it sounds a bit more bitchy than I meant it to sound. Ultimately, I’m extremely thankful for the moderation.

I feel the same.

I do like the microblogging platform for dumb chatter and quck updates (like new music coming out, for example). But in general, I much prefer threaded comment trees.

Same. I’m trying to decide what I like more.

Part of me thinks I’d prefer to have two seperate accounts - one here, one on Mastodon.

He was my favorite living author. Blood Meridian is a modern masterpiece. I think it will stand the test of time and will be read for generations, more so than some of his other work. I think his entire collection is wonderful, but I think that one in particular will still be read 100 years from now (if there is a ‘we’ to be reading thing 100 years from now).

Either way, you will be missed and thank you for staying with it even when you were destitute.

I’m so thankful he didn’t become posthumously famous but instead passed away being viewed as a modern master.

Yeah! I chose my words carefully. I’m curious, not necessarily excited!

I’m unfortunately stuck in a red state, so I feel you there.

This is the biggest deal, imo. Having nuclear secrets, audio of him admitting he was breaking the law - and the public knowing about that, to me says they have much more ammo they’ll be bringing to light in trial. I think he’s screwed. I don’t want to hold my breath, but this seems like it will really take him down.

This is gonna be wild… the feds hardly ever lose.

With that, I’m very curious to see the fallout should he be convicted.