Think I may have found my solution - uBar. I have downloaded it and am trying it out, and honestly, the Windows taskbar-like aspect of it appeals to me (I use Windows 11 at my job). It’s much more functional than the stock Mac dock, and I can stick it where I want it and it stays put. I will probably go ahead and purchase, once my trial is up.

I do use Keyboard Maestro, but don’t know how I triggered it. That gives me something to go on though.

Oh, excellent! I originally started out trying to install WriteFreely with Ngnx, but kept running into problems, so I gave up. Never thought to look in that category - thanks!

I knew about this, but the problem was that my Macbook is positioned below my external monitor, so unless I found just the right spot, the cursor would just move from one screen to the other, without changing where the dock was. However, after reading this reply, I tried again and found the sweet spot near the bottom corner of the screen that allowed me to at least move the dock to the larger monitor. I do wish there was a way to disable that behavior, though. I hate it when I accidentally move it. Thanks…

OK, I think I have this straightened out. The situation was that only my first couple of PixelFed posts showed up in my Mastodon timeline, anything more recent did not. Somewhere along the way, I unfollowed and refollowed my Pixelfed account, to no effect. Today, I went into my Mastodon settings and saw that my Pixelfed follow was “Pending”. I canceled it and followed my Pixelfed account again, and all is well.

I have to say, as something if a social media virgin, I am puzzled by #4. I have never been a Facebook, Instagram or Twitter user. Previous to getting into the Fediverse, the only platform I engaged with that could be considered social media was Reddit, and I left that behind because of the whole brewhaha over third-party clients.

Since finding my way here, I have become an enthusiastic user of Mastodon, Pixelfed and Lemmy. I could not have imagined that it would be easier to acclimate myself and i have not encountered any barriers to entry, or at least I have not recognized any.

Is my experience atypical?

Agreed. This is my position, exactly. Although I do consider myself to be an agnostic atheist, I am open to the idea that there may be a god or gods. I just don’t think that it is likely, and so I conduct myself as if there are not. The main point is, l don’t know, and I don’t think it’s possible to ever know for certain. That’s why I qualify my atheism (or maybe nontheism is more accurate) with an “agnostic”. If people were completely honest, I would wager we would find that most of the people in church every week are actually agnostic, but agnostic theists, rather than agnostic atheist