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If you’re trying to get ancient software to work I think “user friendliness” is the least of your concerns. Especially compared to the alternative (Windows) where the answer is just, “No: That’s not going to work no matter what you do.”

Building online communities takes time. Migrating from one site to another takes a little less time but it’s still a long-term thing.

It’s not so different from moving a retail location. Your store is moving from address A to address B down the road. You put up a sign at the old storefront telling customers, “it’s just down the road!” with instructions to get there and yet businesses that do this see massive sales drops. It’s not uncommon to lose half or three quarters of your customer traffic in the first three months after changing locations. It usually takes a year or more to stabilize to a new normal.

I see no reason why the migration of communities from Reddit to the Fediverse will be different since this type of migration is based on basic human behavior. We need to view it as a new location getting a great big lucky bonus surge because of people angry at our competitor and not some on/off switch.

The key is to maintain quality at the new location so the “customers” start to realize they’re getting a better experience here than they did over at Reddit.

STOP WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU’RE DOING and fill out the form:

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/16136257875348-Data-Caps-Experience-Form

Tell the FCC how much data caps suck and how–if anything–it should be illegal for companies like Comcast to exempt their own services from the data caps. If their IPTV-based “cable” service is streaming 4k video 24/7 that should be included in a customer’s data usage otherwise it’s an abuse of a monopoly over the user’s connection!

Even if they didn’t ban caps outright the caps would disappear overnight if companies were forced to include their own services in customers total data usage figures (because 4k streaming TV services would eat up 99% of the average user’s cap in like three days LOL).

Yes, install your 25-year-old software on your 30-year-old NTFS filesystem (it’s that old).

EDIT: I just looked it up and NTFS turns 30 on July 27th, 2023 LOL

I’m not having any problems at all with my dopamine fix. The Fediverse has reached that critical threshold where there’s no shortage of typos to make fun of with snarky replies and people willingly walking into dad jokes.

So yeah, I’m good 👍

most Reddit employees spend most of their time playing Freecell and jerking off

To be fair, if that’s all they did Reddit wouldn’t be in this dumpster fire of a situation right now.

I second this. I haven’t got a certification in like decades but an accessibility certification sounds fantastic.

There hasn’t been an IT certification I’ve seen in forever where I was like, “yeah I can’t just go and learn that on my own” but one that’s all about accessibility does sound like something I couldn’t just learn on my own… since I’m not disabled/blind and don’t know anyone who is.

What I really want is to learn about accessibility testing. Oh man that’d be like having a superpower! With a skill like that I’d be useful to literally any and every FOSS team that exists!

Aside: I am blind in one eye so I’m one accident away from actually being blind some day. I should learn this stuff now just in case!