The background notifications will be nice! I’m using ntfy for (among other things) notifications for a housemate that isn’t as tech-savvy, so it’ll be nice to get them smart home notifications that they don’t have to keep a tab open for (if I understand this correctly).

I went to Mastodon first, about the same time Twitter officially went into Musk’s ownership. I’ve only looked at Twitter to find fellow refugees from the friends I was following there, but quickly gave up - some people moved over and I was able to follow them, but most went elsewhere from Twitter (mostly Cohost or Itaku) or just remained on Twitter because “that’s where the audience is”. But I’ve been happy on the fediverse - I’ve found that my corner of it has been a lot less about ‘drama’ and more about sharing personal experiences or news. It’s nice!

This whole Reddit thing has been my first look at the ‘threadiverse’ as some have called it. I’m looking at kbin specifically if I end up setting up an instance for my community, but I’m all in on this decentralised social media now, and I really want it to win out.

If you block spam SMSes or assholes and spambots on chat services, it’s basically that. No matter how much the other person tries, they can no longer get through to you on that service. In most cases, it’s as if they no longer exist.

I’ve been watching Raocow for years and years and still enjoy watching him and the games he plays.

I also enjoy Wirtual (TrackMania streamer and doco creator), SimpleFlips (Especially his Trouble in Terrorist Town vids), and then Broughy1322 (GTAV/FiveM racing streamer).

I think besides Simple I tend to gravitate toward more ‘relaxed’ commentary.