This whole "Nessie" thing counts as mildly infuriating to me at this point. The whole loch ness monster thing was a fun thing to wonder about as child, but are people really taking it "seriously?" I'm not even sure if this article was written as a serious news story or not, it's certainly light on substantial new evidence, but then it's a BBC article not presented as satire - are we supposed to all be in on the tired joke or is there really something new and substantial there?
Not to say you can't mention them, just avoid undue weight. Back on Reddit r/firefox turned in to a massive anti-Mozilla circlejerk which is the last thing we need when it's so important to encourage people to use Firefox.
It's the same concerns that get repeated over and over again, given how incredibly important Mozilla is and the good they do, giving undue weight to its flaws is unhelpful.
It does go to show the necessity of adblocking software though. It's not just a trivial convenience at the expense of sites' ad-revenue, it's necessary for online safety.
It was ~20 years ago so my advice to myself then would be pretty irrelevant now. I messed up my laptop, and my advice then would have been don't start with a laptop (because laptop compatibility was lacking back then compared to desktop, different times).
Does it even have a web version? It doesn't seem to be available for my Linux distro of choice, jumping through hoops to install some proprietary app would make it a massive fail.
By "established" what I really mean is it's already gone through the difficult part (i.e. while it's not dominant I think it's passed most of the hurdles that most attempted platforms have failed at). If something's going to do better than Mastodon, it's going to have to have something that people want that Mastodon doesn't have, which I'm not seeing here, but maybe I'm wrong.
The "if you don't value your time" argument applied 20 years ago. These days it's mostly plug-and-play for typical users, you spend far less time troubleshooting than you would dealing this type of BS like OP does. My time is too valuable to be using Windows even if it has some advantages.
This whole "Nessie" thing counts as mildly infuriating to me at this point. The whole loch ness monster thing was a fun thing to wonder about as child, but are people really taking it "seriously?" I'm not even sure if this article was written as a serious news story or not, it's certainly light on substantial new evidence, but then it's a BBC article not presented as satire - are we supposed to all be in on the tired joke or is there really something new and substantial there?