You absolutely should not feel bad about doing this. Ever.

If anything, you should talk about it and share your experience, because your experience could help some of those who work manual intensive jobs and are still struggling to get raises of their own.

Remember: If the company isn’t able to fairly compensate its workers, it doesn’t get to have workers. That’s how supply and demand works.

There is a known strategy called EEE (Embrace, extend, and extinguish).

First, they embrace the open web. Millions of people who never would’ve joined the Fediverse (and, probably, don’t even know what the Fediverse is) flock to Threads and start to interact with us.

Then, they extend the open web, adding features to Threads that aren’t compatible with our servers. People on Threads don’t understand what’s wrong with our server (even though it’s Threads that’s the source of incompatibility).

Finally, they decide they’re “having trouble maintaining compatibility with third party servers” and start to break off from us, leaving us with no way to interact with our new friends. Unless, of course, we make a free Threads account…

Google Talk is perhaps the most relevant example of this. Here’s more details.

Oh yeah, same here. The community is just so much nicer here. :)

Possible solution (for now): Use a different search engine. I recommend DuckDuckGo.

You appear to be missing an arm. Here, take this one instead: \

I mean, like I suspect for most people, my phone is my camera too, but it’s perfectly capable of taking landscape videos.

You simply hire at least two poets to recite verse simultaneously, and you go where they go. Multi. Verse.

Why? It’s not a gif. It won’t change if you stare at it. :P

For your consideration:

WordArt + Comic Sans =

(edit: This took me like two minutes in Powerpoint, someone please make something, anything, that’s better than this, otherwise this is what we’ll end up with)