One more entry for https://killedbygoogle.com/

It’s a strangely fascinating experiment. Gives me flashbacks from scribbling messages on desks in high school.

Investing time and effort sharing know how and knowledge on a corporate social media was a mistake.

The Internet is intrinsically ephemeral. Data is always a few pulled wires away from going offline. Digital support lifespan is surprisingly short. Those aren’t stone slabs. Even paper lasts longer. The Internet’s strength is the distribution. For the data to endure, you need dedicated resources and individuals. Enthusiasts. Guardians. Professionals. If the responsible organization’s goal is profit, it’s doomed from the start.

I don’t want an experience similar to Reddit though. I want a small active community with shared values and a variety of subjects.

Witcher 3 is a fun game and an acclaimed one at that, so the following is just my personal experience. Not taking away anything from it… but playing a superhuman hunk constantly bumping into sexy young witches thirsty for you felt to me very, very cheesy.

Nintendo is hard to beat in the field of family friendly games. Captain Toad is probably the most child friendly game of them all. Mario Odyssey should probably be fun as well. Could really motivate him to learn counting as he looks for the collectibles.

You could look into Spiderweb Software games. It’s a veteran mom and pop indie studio from before indie studios were a thing. They’re still going strong in their retro RPG niche and I’m pretty sure their games run on a potato. Recently I’ve enjoyed Queen’s Wish 1 (2 is in my backlog). I have fond memories of the Avernum series as well.

My tinfoil hat theory is this: Musk has ties with dictators who would really, really like to see Twitter die as it’s been used in the past to organize resistance and broadcast embarrassing information. Musk is used to do the dirty job of running it into the ground. He may or he may not be actually aware of this, as your characterization of Musk is on point. Just speculation of course.

(I never dare voice this opinion, but this is Beehaw so I’ll take a chance. Please be nice!) I understand piracy as a reaction against unfair corporate practice, but in the long run, with enough traction, this kills not only the distributor but the content creators as well.

I worry for the artists and the craft. I don’t want free lunch. Whenever I get free lunch either my attention span is being sold as a product or someone can’t live from their work.

I wish there would be some kind of Bandcamp for series/movies.