I really prefer kbin over the other instances I've tried and I've tried to remain faithful, but if the spam issue, downtime, and defederating continue ...
I didn't know if it's a backend issue or not. Also, I'm just a user, not a mod or magazine owner.
That said, I do know that, having come back from break, there was a godawful number of spammers and spam posts that I ended up blocking just to make things usable again; and a comment by someone else in another thread (https://kbin.social/m/ModHelp/t/1078805/Scripting-for-Moderation-Tasks) asking for help in clearing spam said:
The spam is endless and it seems like other instances are defederating.
I know that I heard people talk about defederating due to spam several months ago; while that didn't seem to happen back then, it seems a possibility now.
Edit: I just checked, and I've blocked 48 separate accounts in the past 27 hours. Some were blocked with only a couple posts, but there were others with multiple pages of posts.
I'm really torn on this. It's good that they're trying to support their families. And they went to Russia in 2022, hopefully before they knew how brutal the Russians would be on Ukraine.
On the other hand, they were willing to take behind-the-scenes jobs to free up Russian soldiers to go fight in Ukraine - killing Ukrainians and making their lives and their country absolutely miserable in order to (supposedly) have a nice cushy life for themselves and their families. And they're complaining because they themselves are being backed into a corner to force them to fight.
Okay, so, my advice is to get a recent edition of a book called What Color Is Your Parachute?; they update it every couple years, so it's important to find a recent edition. What they do is they ask you a series of questions like "tell a brief story about three different times you felt really proud of something you worked at?"; note that the 'something' could be actual work, a hobby, school, etc. You work your way through the questions, and do your best to provide meaningful answers.
Then the book provides a framework to go through your answers and analyze them. It helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses and the characteristics of things you love (and hate). I'd important to do this step, because you think you know yourself, but you really don't because you've never fully explored all your strengths; because you didn't realize all your strengths because some of them are just so natural to you that you think everyone has this skill or they just didn't learn it properly; because you've been comparing your abilities to those of your friends, family, coworkers, classmates, and books/media depictions.
Then it takes your list of skills and things that make you happy, and it suggests jobs for each (this is why you want a recent edition, because jobs go obsolete/come into being all the time, and the skills needed for them change as well).
It sounds both like a bunch of work and really simple, but it's great because it helps you find something that really fits for you and the skills that made you happy, and it helps you find careers you might have otherwise overlooked. Like my mom: my dad and a number of his friends were programmers and analysts, so she never felt she was particularly good at analysis; and her skill at numbers was just something that everyone could do, it was that easy; and several other things as well. But she got through the analysis section and realized that she really was good at analysis and her natural ability with numbers wasn't common, and that she really loved (or hated) doing tasks with certain common elements. And then the book suggested jobs for her innate abilities (because those are less struggle) and things that made her proud or happy or whatever (because those are the jobs that keep you wanting to work them).
So, yeah, that's what I'd recommend: a recent edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? (you're library might have one, or could get it through interlibrary loan, or it may be in the deeper corners of the internet). You're a good friend, to help your friend out with this!
He's most likely referring to Juror #2 who, iirc, is a man who follows Trump on Truth Social and also watches Fox 'News'.
At this point, I would love again like to publicly apologize to Juror #2 for the aspersions I cast on his character during the trial. I'm sorry, dude; you looked at the evidence and went where it led you.
Little typically works at Will Rogers Beach, long considered a safe space among LGBTQ+ beach goers. The beach is so popular with queer residents and visitors that it earned the nickname "Ginger Rogers Beach.
Why doesn't he just ask to be stationed at a different beach? He's offended by a flag, but not a bunch of men and women making everyday PDAs right in front of him?
I would like to formally and publicly apologize to Juror #2 for the aspersions I had cast upon his character. I am sorry for doubting you and your motives, Juror #2.