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Tracker nods along quietly as Alex continues his diatribe on social media platforms.

"I suppose that's a fair assessment of the situation at large. For myself, I've never had an account on any of those platforms, except for a few months on a Mastodon instance after which I deleted it due to the low signal to noise ratio. Perhaps it's just the old techie in me clinging to the comfortable nostalgia of earlier, simpler means of communication, but I still just use calls, plain old SMS texts, and email for ephemeral communication with the world. Anything that I want to persist for future reference, I prefer to host on Gemini and usually proxy to the web. The communities that embrace these slower platforms just seem a lot more genuine and invested in their conversations than the lightning-fast, doom-scrolling-driven communication models of modern social media platforms. Anyway...that's just my 2 cents on the matter."

Shrugging, Tracker goes back to his tea.

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~northern-ghost-bat wrote (thread):

I like what you're saying, Tracker.

A decade ago I moved from the city to the woods. Just for a year initially, not sure how I'll do without the people and easy stores and cultural opportunities and all the mundane luxuries you don't notice until they're no longer available. I never looked back, and I wouldn't trade the tranquility I enjoy here for gold.

What you said inspired me to try the same for my digital life. Move from the overstimulating, feature clogged web, to a saner place like Gemini. Like this pub. Where you can once again dive into a single chain of thoughts, rather than getting your eyes bombarded by FOMO inducing snips at a rate that human minds just did not evolve for.

What a nice thought. Moving to the world wide woods.

Cheers!

~petpave wrote (thread):

Tracker, you must be Cal Newport.