You have to understand that there are places in the USA where “city planning” is completely unheard of. They seem to let landowners develop however the fuck they want. They end up with grids of identical houses with little thought of connections to services such as shopping, healthcare, recreation, etc.

Don’t use Lunair, it sucks.

The people I know that use BlueSky just wanted Twitter without Musk. It wasn’t much more complicated than that and BlueSky has provided that.

Adding AI is very Musk-like so I’m not surprised there’s backlash.

No, I didn’t know about those. Thanks, I’ll check that out.

Yes. I want All to be just other instances that I’m interested in. Not every available (federated) instance.

The only problem with that is not seeing posts from other instances I don’t want to block.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d prefer Subscribed to be personally curated communities, Local to be instance curated, and All to be a place to get a broader picture of, well, everything.

I’d just find it easier/more natural to opt-in to other instance content rather than opt-out.

Essentially, yes. I think you still see comments from users on that instance if they comment on a post on an instance that isn’t blocked.

If you can scam your parents, you can scam anyone. That’s how you know you’re cut out for sales.