I think I’ll remain agnostic on that one. Ask me again in 50 years and I’ll probably know the answer by then. Unless I happen to somehow reach the age of 106 without dying, in which case I’ll take a raincheck.

The Peak District is right on my doorstep (I’m near Manchester). Monsal Dale, near Little Longstone, is lovely. It was a regular place ofr my family to visit when I was a kid, and I still go up there sometimes. The walk along the river from there to Millers Dale is lovely. And there’s a pub at Monsal dale viaduct (or at least, there was, not sure if it’s still open).

More locally, I like the area around Uppermill, Diggle and Delph (north-east of Oldham). There’s a great little riverside cafe caled the Lime Kiln, just north of Uppermill. It gets busy at weekends though.

A couple of weeks ago I went up to the Northumbria coast for a holiday. Warkworth, Alnwick, Bamburgh, Holy Island… it’s all beautiful around there.

I now fully understand why those cars keep exploding… 😂

It seems that this happens when you subscribe to a community on a different instance from your own. You can still read, post and interact exactly as if you were fully subscribed, you’re just not counted in the number of subscribers. I’ve been told that you can force the system to subscribe you properly by repeatedly unsubbing and re-subbing, but I’ve had no luck with doing that so I just leave them alone now.

Aye

I think lemmings is the best one. Lemmings are cute.

yes, because no ads basically means my antivirus software has nothing to do. Creators have no choice over what ads are served up with the content and 99% of ads are loaded with malware whether you click on them or not.

Creators need to come up with better ways to monetise their content instead of relying on them.

Classic martini, dirty, with an olive.

My daughter joined Neopets in its early days, when she was about 13 or 14. She’s 34 now and still active there.

I started on mailing lists in the mid 1990s. I forget the name of the platform I started on* but it got taken over by eGroups and then Yahoo, and started to suck a bit after that. Basicaly, you’d go to the website to find groups to subscribe to, and all the content would come to you by email. You reply by email, and your reply went to everyone subscribed to that particular group. It was crude but efficient, and I really miss some of those communities.

• I found it. It was OneList.

Yes they do, and its almost impossible to say which is “best”. There’s one that’s best for your paper/canvas, your brushes and your technique. The only way to find the best for you, is to buy a few tubes of different brands and see which ones you prefer/find easiest. And don’t worry about wasting paints if you don’t like them; stick with white and primary colours and you can use the others for different techniques. You can even mix paint of different brands, to get a balance between them.

Only if Spez leaves and is replaced by a decent CEO who reverses EVERYTHING that Spez has effed up in the past few years. I’d return for some small niche communities I participate on that aren’t present in the lemmy-verse (yet). But I’d stay here too. I am committed to Federated services now.

Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen. No matter how bad I feel, it always makes me feel better, and it’s lively enough that it inspires me to channel that energy into somehing more productive than just venting.