ObstreperousCanadian

It’s weird how unified in messaging these guys always are.

I’m from Montreal originally. We call ourselves Quebecers.

We’re too nice, sorry.

This is why Microsoft doesn’t care about exclusivity anymore. Consoles were sold at a loss to sell software, but if you can sell your software anywhere, you’re ahead of the game.

Who will arrest him? His allies who want this too?

Same here. Personally, I’m also going to buy as little from the US as I can for the next while. Same as last time.

Thanks for the reminder that I need eggs this weekend. They’re like $4 CAD a dozen here.

Also, if you just watch them they accidentally light themselves on fire.

Yeah, it’s why I went with Proton over other options. :/

I agree. It’s like Occam’s Razor, but with stupidity instead of simplicity: the most stupid reason is the most likely.

Have they tried rakes? /s

Genuinely, I would buy some of their games on Steam if they didn’t use their launcher.

Oh! I got the meme! I also preferred it when it was clearly a joke, not a call to child labour.

This. Defunding education, removing social safety nets, and scaling back labour laws all will force whole families of low income workers to replace the migrant workers for the same or worse pay.

Until he runs for office or Trump puts him in his cabinet.

It’s just easier. I have both but I almost never use Mastodon anymore. Federation there doesn’t seem to work right. I didn’t know what an instance was so I joined mastodon.social. Finding and following people in the app doesn’t always seem to work right if they’re on another instance. Doing it in a browser is even more painful.

The people I liked to follow and interact with on X, many tried Mastodon and abandoned it, and many more are now on Bluesky. This creates momentum to “follow the crowd” as it were.

Additionally, you only have one chance to make a first impression. A lot of us tried Mastodon earlier and it wasn’t ready. Bluesky started as invite-only, which drummed up interest before catching this zeitgeist of people leaving X.

Lastly, and maybe it’s just me, but the font sizing on the official Mastodon app on Android is generally too small and can’t be changed. Bluesky allows me to change it and make it more comfortable to use.

Don’t! Be evil!

One of the three carriers in Canada is about to do away with prepaid entirely in December. That said, I have a pretty affordable monthly plan and I buy my phones outright.