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Cake day: July 22nd, 2024

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  • Because you’re essentially putting data into a limbo, in hopes that a heavily profit oriented company does not fuck you as they please. They need more money? They’ll charge money. Someone with any power reports you? You’re banned/striked, no questions asked. Much cheaper and convenient than giving a second thought. And, of course, automated. You lose decades of work? No one will care if you aren’t either a company earning millions or are a huge public figure.

    The model of for-profit companies, especially as hosters for services, is deeply flawed.




  • I very rarely even see em dashes in regular text. I wouldn’t know how to type them on neither my PC nor my phone (the latter at least not intuitively) anyway. I always use -, and assumed en and em dashes were only used in books and such, where you also use lots of different fonts, sizes, »« instead of „“/“”, etc. If you truly want an artistic pause that is longer than ‘-’… just use …