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Specifically what is your problem with those? You haven't really explained anywhere in the thread. It's kinda relevant for knowing what to recommend.

I've seen this without the slur, but it's still weird that people are out here trying to redefine specific, well-defined, unambiguous, basic, and universal English terms. Not as a metaphor, not even as a bit, or attempted point (luckily, as it wouldn't have been a good one), just using a term in a way apparently nobody else ever does.

It's very human, that's why it happens everywhere in history and also in at least like 4 or 5 different places right now.

We'd like to think we're nice and rational and empathetic, but we're just not as a species.

I think the idea of having instances own communities is fundamentally flawed. Discoverability is one of many ways that fucks things up.

Because what is legal and not does not involve all that much logic.

Fresh and still crispy, sure. It's the sogginess that got me.

French fries sometimes go in kebabs and stuff around here. When they're on the side, that is awesome. When they're just drenched in the sauce so you get a soggy pile of greasy potato, it is disgusting.

Oh, and fruity beers suck: not just "notes of blahblahblah in my hipster IPA" which can be good, but "we literally put fruit juice in this stuff" which... can't. I like beer, I like fruit. They do not, however, need to mix on my account.

Sorta related: coriander (cilantro) is fine in moderation and I'm a sucker for a baguette. Once had a banh mi that had a fucking bushel of the stuff, tasted like being dragged through miles of dense shrubbery after someone yanked you out of the shower mid-shampooing. Also burning.

Because you don't want to reinvent wheels unless you have a good reason. What would be a good reason for a new OS family at this point?

Because people treat it like it's an indispensable town square.

This place is chock full of idealists and techies, it's easy to lose track of exactly how much sheer "inertia" and habit shape people's tech choices. And that's assuming there is a choice at all, maybe you either Facebook up or junior isn't going to any activities, nobody knows what's up in the neighborhood, people will either be harder to contact or (partly understandably) look at you like an asocial weirdo, etc

Looking for my phone... while holding the damn thing in my hand.

Damn Brunhild, that's just like her.

Probably not. But from their POV it's at least a competitor, albeit an insignificant one, and pushing too hard to "let people know" is... pretty much spam. They're used to handling spam and have mechanisms in place (fewer now, though. snort.)