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< And then are there those who put too many others in various states of wtf

~inquiry

> ::wishes I could do the quote stuff you can do::

Um....... RTFM? ;-)

> I hope you find a new job and that the disastrous
> foray wasn't to...disaster-y.

Oh... just a 50% pay cut to work 50 times harder to *not* accomplish what I've come to believe isn't humanly possible anyway....

> Me? Blogging over on Ghost for now, but will likely
> be back on W.a in due time (kinda already *am* back
> there), and Ghost is nice and all, just "too much"
> happening there (in terms of the software - I don't
> see much of a community to speak of). olry.co is
> the URL (for now) if you wanna check it out.

Nice!

FWIW, I've come to see (online) "community" as mostly a myth. My theory of the moment on that is self-centered selves at best *maybe* wanna have a club of essentially clones of themselves. But the instant anyone else acts/speaks/writes in a way not in accord with such in a physical and/or conceptual space the club faithful consider their own, individuals thereof might try some sort of barking to scare off the evildoer, several/all might band together to bark and/or silence the evildoer away, etc.

So maybe "community" happens accidentally for a season from time to time, but soon enough collapses under the weight of its collective self-centered-ness?

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~tffb wrote:

I agree on the "online community myth" thing. No community has ever existed in history that hasn't been in the presence of others IRL, I think. And clones of like-minded people to either backup the original person's words or otherwise be seen as "non-conforming" to the narrative that is being presented - that is almost like "Online Communicae 101". What's worse is when it is taken to an extreme example and someone will fall all over themselves to kiss the ring of, promise their first-born child to, a person/group of people on the WWW they find "neat". A stark contrast to finding like-minded people that you/I/anyone feel are on the "same level of"...status, so to speak.

It is what it is, though. I cannot make the world a better place (stopped trying years ago, actually), and I feel avoiding places where the ring-kissing/child-promisers frequent has made "not caring" much easier (namely sites like Twitter, and Mastodon, etc.). We are all who we are - no need to "be better" or (voluntarily) "be less" than anyone else. :)

Good to see ya, bud