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New comment by rjkershner in "Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto"

rjkershner — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:03:24 +0000

I was aware of Bitcoin back when it all started and thought it didn't have any tangible value. I still believe it has no real value. While I wish I could foresee playing the market to make some money, at the end of the day "magical internet money" is just smoke and mirrors.

New comment by rjkershner in "Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left"

rjkershner — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:31:37 +0000

I've lurked on Mastodon for a while and honestly your experience will be only as good as your instance you subscribed to. Fosstodon is a very focused instance with like minded people, and the local feed there is pretty top notch. My experience on more "general" focus instances was a lot worse and borderline spammy.

Hoping they put effort in making your activity pub profile more portable as move accounts to new servers is still kludgey at best.

New comment by rjkershner in "Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup"

rjkershner — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:14:14 +0000

Just want to add that neocities is a cultural treasure and I appreciate the work you put into it! I'm sad to hear that Google "Safe" Browsing once again rears it's ugly head blocking legitimate websites, yet I still see scams and phishing show up on ad sponsored links for Google search results.

I could foresee in the future all of us having to pay the toll so our hosted websites are considered "safe" too...