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fionacodes.bsky.social
@fionacodes.bsky.social
Ruby developer learning Swift

📍 San Diego, CA
At first glance I thought cow but I am confident it was intended to be a giraffe
December 14, 2024 at 7:49 PM
They have badges on Letterboxd and nobody minds. The problem with Twitter badges is that they previously meant something else, and they boosted paid accounts in the algorithm, and I’m they meant you were giving money to Elon.
December 8, 2024 at 5:15 AM
This is why I like Dana K. Whites’s “take it there now”, though it mostly results in me just never putting things away 😭

I do recommend at least trying it once because it’s a game-changer for some people!

youtu.be/UgPzjWyVwH0
My No Mess Decluttering Method Demonstration
YouTube video by Dana K White
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December 8, 2024 at 12:22 AM

Plus, there are other uses to having a personal domain. You can use it for your email, which means that if your email provider becomes shitty/evil you can change your email provider without changing your email address.
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
So I prefer for them to find ways to keep ongoing costs down, and I think outsourcing the costs of verification to users is a fair trade because most who have a need for verification are public figures who can afford it.
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Anyway my opinion is: for Bluesky to do Twitter-style verification, it would take a lot of resources, not just to get it started, but high ongoing costs too. The more revenue they need to operate the more pressure there is on them to do the same shitty/evil things other social media sites do.
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Can you say more about why you’d rather pay
Bluesky than a domain provider? I think that’s fine but it’s not a perspective I’ve heard before so I’m curious why.
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
If that use is relevant to you, you can easily obtain a domain. It’s cheap and doesn’t take long. You don’t need to make a website, you can just buy a domain and use it exclusively for Bluesky.
December 3, 2024 at 1:34 PM
I don’t get why people seem to be saying, “most people don’t already have their own domain, therefore it’s unreasonable to expect people to obtain domains for Bluesky verification”.

Bluesky is a new world. Maybe you had no need for a personal domain before, but they have a new use now.
December 3, 2024 at 1:34 PM
I am a nobody and I have one that I use exclusively for email!
December 3, 2024 at 12:31 PM
They don’t need to already have one, they can buy one now. It takes 5 minutes.
December 3, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Doesn’t have to be a whole website! You can just buy a domain and not put a website on it.
December 3, 2024 at 12:27 PM
I suppose in practice I do that too, but I wanna give them a chance, so I scroll through their profile looking for original posts, but I give up pretty quick if I can’t find any!
December 3, 2024 at 5:19 AM
I have reposts hidden from my feed, so the reposts themselves don’t bother me, but when I look at someone’s profile and it’s all reposts then I have no idea what I’m gonna see if I follow them!
December 3, 2024 at 3:37 AM
2 nights definitely feels too short if people are spread out across the US IMO, but if everybody’s in the same region I might actually prefer it! Like if it was just an hour flight I wouldn’t mind.
December 3, 2024 at 3:26 AM
I think the official work activities are the least valuable part; the most valuable is just getting everyone together in person. But it’s good to have some structured activities to facilitate mingling or people will mostly just talk to people they already know.
December 3, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Oh, and the worst part was, we were expected to work Friday after getting home Thursday, possibly late at night, or use PTO! Should have just been a free day off IMO!
December 3, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Plus 3 nights is so short it doesn’t feel worth it when you’re traveling cross country.
December 3, 2024 at 3:17 AM
They later changed it to 3 nights which was annoying because they crammed all the work stuff into the 2 full days and moved the fun stuff to the travel days so people traveling long distances couldn’t participate!
December 3, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Currently unemployed but my last company did. They were originally 4 nights so 3 full days and 2 travel days, with a mix of work related activities and fun stuff on the 3 full days. I thought it was a good balance.
December 3, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Oh my gosh thank you, I’ve been doing it from setting this whole time!
December 1, 2024 at 3:46 AM
Sometimes it’s easier to not have to meet up to exchange a key.
December 1, 2024 at 3:43 AM
It’s annoying with things like banking and airline apps which seem to force me to update every time I use them. But it’s worth it for other apps to be able to look at the change log and decide if there are actually changes I want before updating.
November 30, 2024 at 4:16 AM