Damn. My sympathies, friend. Life dealt you a bad hand and society said “get wrecked” instead of helping you fix it. Hope I didn’t offend. 🫂 🫶

I’m sure you just made a typo, but I am chuckling to myself at the thought that you are walking around being blind specifically because it’s against the law and not because of any biological problems. Like “fuck the police, I’m throwing away my glasses!”

Lemme (heh) know if you ever figure it out – I’m very new here and apart from doing the legwork of finding communities to subscribe to I don’t know what else there is

I think most of this is spot on, but the hearsay was that the subreddits who did participate in the shutdown were threatened with an ultimatum, which while I don’t think is possible to prove either way, hints that it would have happened regardless. Tho I’m usually all-too-ready to don my tinfoil hat when it comes to reddit trying to look appealing to investors; I witnessed a number of hentai/porn subreddits get banned and users actively request to become new mods only to be ignored.

Even if you discount the mods, there’s definitely a certain inertia you see in groups like this (like what’s going on with Discord right now) – people don’t want to leave in part because they’ve got their little in-group and don’t want to have to go through finding or founding a new group elsewhere. I think it’s particularly prevalent with those niche communities that don’t ever really break containment; the community would already be small enough without fracturing to the eight winds. I’m liking Lemmy so far but as I am trying to drum up activity in one of those niche communities (RWBY), it’s kind of disheartening how little relative traffic there is across the place.

You could try 12ft Ladder – looks like the .io site went down but first result when I searched the web was “5 alternatives that work” from a tech-focused website. I personally wouldn’t bother since the OP didn’t actually provide a source other than the WSJ’s homepage.

It’s math like this that convinces me that you can contribute more to the ecosystem by paying even a single dollar to a creator’s Patreon (even when Patreon takes 30% off the top) and watching w/ adblock than paying a monthly subscription to YT.

Well, played, my friend, well played.

There was one (1) spot that got me seriously stuck in Portal 2, I think about halfway thru? Here’s hoping you can work through it better than I did (I had to look up the solution).