im on the current de facto #1 best private tracker for music and i dont really use it because soulseek has literally all of it, including stuff that isnt even on there
I am a programmer and I still just didn't bother. Also the instance I signed up on got nuked and I didn't know this until well after the migration window closed. By comparison my 12 year old Twitter account is still there
It's pretty isolating, everyone else either drank the kool aid hard or is "well it's not all bad" about it, I get stared at like I have 5 heads when I claim there isn't a single good thing about it
This thread possibly fuelled by recent events. Take your pick. Don't stare at lines of code for 8 hours a day it turns you into Hitler. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
I don't fit in anywhere and this fact only really troubles me more over time. At the same time I wish people acted in ways that didn't make me hate them so much
But there's also a reason I keep severing ties and running away to corners of the internet, I think I became a fairly annoying and unlikeable person at some point, and I think (...and hope) it's just out of some well-placed misanthropy and not like undiagnosed BPD or something
I really wanted to convince myself it was just the Silicon Valley Y Combinator Rationalist You Can Just Do Things mindset. So I just needed to find people who don't think like that. I'm now convinced this is impossible. I don't even live in the same country as Silicon Valley
I think I strongly dislike almost everybody that works in tech, which is unfortunate after making the very questionable decision of also doing that. I have to now convince myself nothing is inherently wrong with it, when it seems to have exclusively turned out some of the most pathetic people alive
i literally cant find any real world analogues entertaining this on any level, is this because of all the butlerian jihad posts? the "clanker" posts (which came from techbros)? are people being mean to chatgpt specifically, is using the term "ai slop" an attack on its character?
Hey im running a new social media platform built on decentralisation. Decentralisation is when you have a big thing in the middle that every other thing is connected to right
I wasn't exactly picturing a movement with a name, more just a bunch of disgruntled people collectively agreeing they should leave, like what happened with Twitter. So I guess that led to two different points being argued
I think we just had two different ideas of that in mind. The way everyone agreed Twitter was run by a Nazi, locked their accounts and changed their names to their Bluesky accounts was about as "organised" as this would be to me.
Like I don't think you were doing it in bad faith. I just don't understand how internet arguments get like this and this particular instance is opening my eyes to this a little more
...I said that but I'm now looking at this genuinely confused how the goalposts moved to arguing that it wasn't *one* boycott. No one ever made this point. I just said that "it was a gradual and multifaceted 3 years" was untrue, and that it was mass waves of people over 9 months
