I suppose pointing it at the bidet instead of the toilet is more tasteful

My husband just traded one for the other. We’d like to think it’s “healthier”, but who knows. Definitely stinks less which I appreciate.

But everyone and everything rather avoid pain, wouldn’t they? And if I would like to treat those the way I would like to be treated, then why not try to help mitigate that pain where possible?

I had a problem like this the other day. I needed to vacuum out my car and there is no good outlet near it where I park at my apartment building. Went to the hand wash to wash my car, then on the outside of the building there was a random outlet on the wall, no idea why it was there. I thought about plugging my vacuum in that I had in my trunk, but I felt too weird about it…

On another note, I’ve totally used outlets in the hospital waiting area when I’ve been there for hours. I don’t feel weird about that for whatever reason. But we don’t pay for Healthcare here so maybe that has something to do with it.

Gyfycat has also been running for 8 years, Imgur for 14. I’m talking only about the longevity of a service running. I don’t think people are expecting any instance to run for that amount of time, though its obviously too early to tell.

Clearly these large centralized services eventually decay away due to power hungry individuals within, but it takes some time.

I’m not sure if people are going to read this as I’m pro-centralized services, because I’m not, I’m just making statements.

If lemmy.world dies, you’re account goes down along with it. You would then need to find a new instance and make a new account.

I understand what you’re saying, but I feel more concerned with the stability of instances due to the fact that they’re run by everyday people as something to do, they already have lives and jobs outside of this. Maybe it’s a passion project they pour a lot into, but the possibility of it crashing down for various reasons is a lot higher than a larger centralized service run by companies whose soul purpose is to run that service.

I had never heard of it either and I’ve been online since the 90s.

I don’t know if I’d feel like I’d be missing out on anything personally, I don’t have any interest in what people from Facebook or Instagram have to say as I feel like it’s going to be pretty watered down interactions with little thought behind it.

If they remove themselves from the fediverse equation after amassing a following, I would hope we would be left with what we just have here at the moment, which I’m quite happy with.