That’s unfortunate but that’s not really a statement about the quality of Tildes.

My anecdotal experience has been that Tildes is slower paced but offers the highest quality interactions of all the online communities I’m a part of.

I am happy to invite you if you’re interested.

Yes, check out tildes.net.

This is very sad.

Also half of their software straight up didn’t work. My OnePlus was the most powerful least useful device I have owned.

And how does making a google search constitute “handing over everything to Google”?

Especially in your example of the default context when a user is using Safari, which has tracking protection enabled. And possibly using iCloud Relay to anonymize browsing.

A big part of my childhood and early adulthood was reading his articles and columns in Maximum PC. Very sad indeed!

Do you have an example of this?