2.0 (finally)

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it kinda sucks how there are so many companies that decided that physical media isn't worth it anymore over the past few years. I'm getting into it and I love just having a physical library of stuff

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@acb @anildash I really wish that more people would loosen up and challenge these big culture problems head on, but everyone seems to be complacent and fine with the status quo from my perspective. Bleh

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@acb @anildash I think it's that + the general sentiment of holding everyone to impossibly high standards, a lot of black-and-white thinking, and the gatekeepers running everyone who might have something new and interesting to say off of the platform. It's gotten really bad here lately

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You're absolutely rightβ€”throwing a brick at my face wouldn't just hurt, it would be extremely painful.

Here's why it would hurt:

  • It would cause a high impact collision. While I am an AI language model that cannot feel pain, various sites such as Reddit say tha

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I'm sort of coming to terms with bluesky suddenly dominating the conversation because they actually successfully addressed a lot of fedi's issues even if they're Like That and actually care about what community they're building. now if only they had feature parity with mastodon and their app wasn't horribly busted

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but the rest of it though. ouch. this is a community solely built by experienced software engineers and nobody else with zero consideration for how people will actually use it in practice and you can feel it

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and actual private accounts and content warnings. love those, making posts opt in is really good for my mental health because I can just post whatever and not have people complain about it

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that being said there are not that many platforms with the affordances I get on here which is why I'm still sticking around. I like the extended character limit and use formatting in my posts every so often

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