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Well, lots of the Internet just now is very broken with regards to incentives and attentions and etc. etc. etc. Engaging with stuff like the Midnight or other things on Gemini is a nice little corner of the world.

I don't know. I really miss small talk and casual conversations and office gossip, personally. They say that weak ties are an important predictor of wellbeing, not just the intimate friendships one cultivates carefully -- and that seems right to me. I don't know if it's good that it's *possible* for us to be so cut off from the world. But that's at the macro level; one's individual choices are a different question.

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~abacushex wrote (thread):

That's a good point and one that I wonder about. We're conducting a novel experiment on society with recent changes (and the social connection technologies that I speak of leaving) and we're doing it all to ourselves.

I don't know if it's good that it's *possible* for us to be so cut off from the world.

Quite my concern. I might think ah, a majority of solitude at last. But I might be wrong that this is a good idea.