That is an absolute nightmare.

Also, there’s no lockdown after X attempts. I can try infinitely, as far as I’m aware.

Eh, AFAIK that’s not a best practice anyway, at least not any low number. From what I recall, the recommendation is to either have a high number of attempts that causes a lockout (50+?) or high-priority alerts when a large number of invalid attempts is detected. One of the problems with lockouts based on X attempts, especially low numbers like you often see, at least in my mind, is that it opens people up to a denial of service attack. Let’s say that all account names are predictable, like first initial and last name. A rogue user could lock out anyone they wanted to with that knowledge. What if they know or can easily predict the usernames for all admins or IT people in the organization and they lock them all out?

Leaving the electronics at home also seems easier to explain in case you’re stopped, compared to trying to explain why you have a phone wrapped in tinfoil in your pocket.

Aren’t 90% of games just kind of trash?

Answer, per Sturgeon’s Law: “Ninety percent of everything is crap”

That’s true. It’s like (old?) Twitter. Anyone could pollute and spam hashtags. Some hashtags are worse than others.

I’m also on mastodon but I’ve had a real tough time finding my crowd there which is odd, but I think it’s because it’s too fragmented.

What have you tried so far to find your crowd on Mastodon?