Besides the other answers, it trivializes them while making you put forth the tiniest effort towards one you might care about while you can discard the rest. The trick with phones isn’t in picking it up to look, but rather on putting it back down.
Inverse Murphy’s Law dictates that if your disaster recovery plan is top notch, tested, rehearsed, refined, and you flip to the alternate site on a schedule then you’ll never ever need it for real.
Gently explain to anybody who will listen that you accidentally spilled some of your cocaine.
An increasing percentage of what I read is from federated instances. If Beehaw isolated itself I’d probably make an account elsewhere and hook into the fediverse from elsewhere, leaving Beehaw behind. Beehaw is great, but it’s not enough of a community by itself.
Mine was an 11 year old account with almost 400K karma.
The sad thing was thinking about all the time I spent in it, realizing that it’s time that was literally spent.
98% of bots are crap. The problem is that people have different opinions as to which 98% of them is the crap portion.
Absolutely any bot needs to self-identify.
Holy fuck yes.