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In high obeisance to the Beatles song behind the title:
the post breaks
refined takes
you find that
all your text
of mind fess
linger wrong
when they
no longer
read you
There's so much non-comment in Gemini space(s) that I wind up feeling more than a few degrees of disbelief a la "Did that really just happen?" when suddenly confronted with response.
It's a constant battle to not take response silence negatively, I *think* because my wife tends to take non-response suspiciously, so that maybe it's become a sort of default household mode.
Another aspect that seemingly generates negative phantasms in said silence is the best years of my online life having been in USENET, where commenting on chunks of inline quoting seemed like the pinnacle of textural community to me for years.
All told, Gemini activity feels worse than simply logging thoughts to local files, pointless to get it "out there" only to have no indication of it mattering. A minimalist leaning nutcase like me sees/feels time/effort down the drain in that, um, non-dynamic.
I mean, I could ask how others feel okay with that, but of course there'll be absolutely no response, so it's pointless.
So I guess I'll just have to continue to pretend something's actually happening (sp)here as best I can.
Or is it that there really are so few players?