It’s quite a nice player for that purpose, and I was able to move over all of my favorites and ratings without too much trouble either. I chose it purely because it’s FOSS and met my needs on my distro. If you’re willing to use freeware on something like Windows specifically though, idk.

Tire stores make me stressful; I’m filled with so much pressure every time.

You might find it laborious at first, but as you post, it will turn natural. It’s not what I would ask of most, but to join a Mastodon location all about that act? It did disappoint a bit skimming local posts; it’s fun to do this activity!

Bingo, saw an opportunity and had to jump on it.

A bit of a drag that a lot of local posts look so short and cut off—avoiding that fifth glyph isn’t particularly difficult. I was hoping individuals willing to sign up to this community would find joy in writing out paragraphs about various things.

As a long time supporter of SaveAFox, it’s hard to really even process this. I am sure being an online personality to try and fundraise isn’t easy, but never did I dream that there was such a degree of hate lobbed at Mikayla that she’d decide to end her own life. Someone so kind and devoted to the lives of creatures who are constantly exploited and cannot save themselves. It’s just despicable, and all I can really hope for is that Mikayla’s mission continues on in spite of such significant loss.

Though if decentralization were to be hidden, it’d be a good idea to cycle through lots of well established general instances for user signups under the hood. The vast majority of people are just going to choose the default options, and if it’s all going to funnel into mastodon.social, that’s a lot of centralization of users. Ideally no single server lords over all the others in terms of user count, because that gives them lots of power other instances may feel compelled to abide by. Having power spread out across many different people helps keep things in check, at the very least making large or drastic decisions more of a round table affair.