Mastodon isn't like a large public square as the other social networks are. It's more like gatherings of neighbours, hobbyists, family, clubs. An instance is a group of individuals with similar interests. You wouldn't join a chess club if your interest was in skiing, would you?
You could join one of the larger servers and simply broswe around for a while to find things that interest you and see from which instance the tags and posts come from, then have a look there.
I think Mastodon is closer to physical social networks than the others. Like BBSs. As an introvert, I feel more at ease there.

in 10 to 15 years when we're even more hit by the consequences of not caring about the climate?

LLMs have not reached the artificial intelligence status yet, but they have reached the artificial human behaviour milestone.

No surprise when LLMs have not been raised as kids by good parents but instead on the complete garbage pile available on the internet without proper guidance.

With 99.99% of writers and people abusing "get" in every way, we're already on the down slope for a long time.
In dialogue concerning low IQ characters, fine, but use correct terminology outside of that in writing. People will never learn proper language skills otherwise.

This is old news; last month it was already mentioned here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F05%2F21%2F2122224%2Fusage-of-semicolons-in-english-books-down-almost-half-in-two-decades

You think constant stress, anxiety, depression is a not a form of chronic pain?

My sis had a friend in her 20s who went through a year of medication, therapy, and whatnot before her request for suicide was granted. She was physically healthy but mentally in pain. You want to keep torturing people like her for the remainder of their life because of your selfish beliefs?

But I'll bet some small shell scripts can. :-)

Nope, knowing someone else than intended can read my private messages does not make me feel more secure. The smart criminals already know how to obfuscate their communication and actions.
Besides, I worry more about the greed of mill/billionaires screwing with my life than encountering a disturbed individual when I'm going out.

FUD

Ever since Firefox exploded in memory use when they went multi-process, Pale Moon has been my default browser. I only miss containers because I could use multiple accounts simultaneously on specific sites for work.

Only my bank has a site which doesn't stick to common (not Google specific forced) web standards and doesn't work with Pale Moon with Firefox user agent, so that's the only reason I still have Firefox installed.

Yuck, I can't stand toy UIs as desktop, and what would I do with a quantum machine anyway?
I'll stick with my abacus running openbox, thank you.

Hang on. The trailer states only in theatres at the end, which means..

Spaceballs 2: The Musical

[citation needed]

That must be the cause since it's scheduled for today.
Wagons full of packets are waiting.

Maybe because the quality of the content has also lessened lately?
Haven't heard of anything interesting enough to download for a peek in the last year or so.