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I’m not new to Lemmy anymore… but this place remains something of a mystery to me. At Reddit we met mostly A-holes… but here some how there are genuinely intelligent, kind, empathic individuals who share valuably and vulnerably from their experience with, I believe, the sole intention of helping perfect strangers.
Your comment here stood out to me so much that I did something I almost never do… I mosied into your contributions. I’ll share why: when certain folks here are so intelligent and spot on, I worry it’s AI. Forgive me. Why someone should be trying to run AI bots in the Fediverse is beyond me, but there, now you have peeked at a little of my own toxic narrative. I confess that I noticed you do not create original posts… choosing to drop insightful comments when interested. If I may, and I hope you will pardon my curiosity about an interesting person, how do you find yourself un compelled to ever make a post? Or do you have a lessermeancow account where you drop a meme every so often?
Don’t let this go to your head, but as I read the first comment you left me and others I read from your profile, I thought, this person was a star at Reddit and left when everyone else did. I’m glad you’ve embraced your mission.
I’ll say, I don’t share stuff for popularity — I share it because I want others to know about it or I want to know if they agree or disagree with it.
I’m a big fan of typewriters and I think sometimes about starting an r/typewriters here… that and r/idiocracy are what i miss most from Reddit.
Waning… you could be referring to the rest of vapid mainstream socials… and I agree that’s waning or already lost, but I have great faith in the Fediverse. You do not?
Yeah… seeing in the century time frame… I’m barely able to fathom six months or a year. I can see Lemmy growing at its current rate for a decade without becoming dog shit for certain.
There is a percentage of the mainstream getting fed up with dogshit. They are sniffing around.
Somehow you are making me feel more responsible for supporting this instance… how much are people donating?
I realize that was not your intention… and I don’t really use this place that much… but I am heartened by the thoughtfulness and generosity of the people that will share an old thread like this… Like… I don’t know you but I like your thinking. I often feel that I have a lot to learn from the folks here.
Do you go back to the system of interconnected BBS systems that allowed you to have a friend a thousand miles away and you could send emails back and forth? And play space trader? This is how far I go back. Pre-aol
I am a very curious person.
And like many of our fellow Lemmings, I want to envision a society that values human beings and puts people before profits.
I have been pushing back against enshitification for as long as I can remember.
You remember Web 1997 — that was the peak. Obviously we needed Wikipedia, so we can go as far forward as its birth but that overlaps with the corporatizing of the internet…
So what’s an old timer like me doing around here? Learning. Meeting cool people. Feeling like I’m doing one small act of resistance in a world that wants to turn everyone into this Matrix batteries.
So… I feel a lot of the time it’s me against the goddamn tech.
Case in point: two factor.
It’s another layer… another thing that can go wrong.
Had to upgrade my 2014 laptop and got a machine with finger print blah blah blah.
I refuse to use it.
The machine fights me via browsers.
I finally have to use incognito mode on almost every browser I open or I can’t get into my employers platform to do my fucking work.
I’m here to be around people who don’t like to be bullied by faceless megaliths.
And just the random cool people who will pursue a cool thread.