• “I don’t want to see content from this person”, legit
• “I don’t want to get notifications about this person’s content”, legit
• “I don’t want this person’s content to be able to link to my profile or use my name”, dubious
• “I want this person to have to log out to see my content”, nonsense

Who runs their email servers? You can outsource fediverse server hosting too…

It depends on what sort of games you play. Some games / genres / publishers are much worse about this than others.

If you’re at least a 4/10 woman or an 8/10 man, they are pretty effective. For the rest of us, not so much.

Instant messaging.

20 years ago, there were half a dozen competing major platforms (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, etc), like today.

The difference is that you had your choice of half a dozen clients that could each talk to ALL of the platforms. Adium, Trillian, Kopete, etc.

Today’s kids have no idea what we lost to the god of profit.

What makes you think XDG doesn’t apply to non GUI apps?

Thanks, I hadn’t heard of that. Time to add a few hundred lines to my dotfiles :)

That name is decades old. XDG stands for “Cross Desktop Group”.

A “pure” X environment (e.g. startx xterm) also doesn’t define those variables, but many desktop environments do, just like many shell configurations do.

Finding women for whom my appearance isn’t a dealbreaker. I have moderate to serious rosacea and acne on my face. That filters out 90%+ of women before we even speak to each other.

• gnome/gtk: https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/systemd-manager
• kde/qt: https://invent.kde.org/system/systemdgenie
• browser based: https://cockpit-project.org/
• curses: https://github.com/ana-cc/chkservice