Keith in Paradise@keithos@c.imc.im

Meta Verified Shows a Company Running Out of Ideas

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-verified-instagram-facebook-twitter-out-of-ideas/

"Years after Facebook quietly removed a slogan that declared the site was "free and always will be", parent company Meta announced on Sunday a paid-for subscription service that has already been widely criticised."

https://japantoday.com/category/tech/meta-subscriber-plan-risks-digital-divide-say-critics

"Joy gets even bigger when you share it"

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnZqefvjq-k/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden

TechCrunch: Medium embraces Twitter alternative Mastodon with launch of its own community.

Online publishing platform Medium, originally created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, announced today that it’s embracing the open source Mastodon platform by creating its own instance to support its authors and their publications. The company said it’s launching me.dm, a Mastodon community that will offer reliable infrastructure, moderation and a short domain name to make it easier for authors to share their usernames, among other things.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/12/medium-embraces-twitter-alternative-mastodon-with-launch-of-its-own-community/

Kraken sub-variant may hike risk of ‘longer Covid’ warn experts - symptoms may last years

It comes as recent reports forecast quicker infection rates from the latest XBB.1.5 strain.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1720811/coronavirus-longer-covid-latest-kraken-variant-symptoms

The super-transmissible Covid variant may spread almost 40 percent faster than its predecessors, suggesting it may soon take over the [U.K.'s as] the most dominant form of the virus. Experts have warned a surge in positive cases is already apparent since the variant's emergence. The main concern is that this could lead to longer-lasting symptoms among the infected population, lasting more than two years in some cases.

Life Begins When You Do
Live with Intention:
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Laugh.
Play with abandon.
Practice wellness.
Continue to learn.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Lead or follow a leader.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
-- Brother Jeffrey

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Buddha

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Check on your people. Practise compassion daily.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFcxP4mx/

What is the Fediverse? https://p.lu/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD

Don't buy. Adopt. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFn596h3/

A loved dog loves back, and there is frankly nothing like it.

One user's thoughts on Reddit after signing up for Mastadon himself could be useful to other newbies and people considering making the jump to the platform...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/zptxkh/new_to_mastodon_heres_what_i_learned/

Musk hot and busy banning journalists who deign to criticize him, but racist attacks remain a consistent and sadly predictable feature of his platform. https://c.im/@dw/109540462196140535

*Mind blown*
Add ".RSS" to a Mastadon user's profile URL and you get the RSS feed of their stream. Thus, for me, https://c.im/@keithos.rss