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   ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: (nyx@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 09:28:54 JST ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:
   my experience with queers in their early 20s online whose special interest is like fringe political theory and philosophy is that they're always extremely reliable and stable and do not ever move onto some other new thing in the span of a few months without having ever contributed anything to the things they claimed to care about for awhile
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     ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: (nyx@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 09:40:50 JST ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:

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     @elementals this is definitely not something that has happened to me many times and made me even more likely than I already was to see basically everyone as an ephemeral and disposable presence in my life
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     elementals (elementals@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 09:40:52 JST elementals

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     @nyx I can hear your teeth gritting from here.
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     The Wolf of Wallsocket Street dir. Martin Underscorcese (larsfrommars@toot.garden)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 09:40:58 JST The Wolf of Wallsocket Street dir. Martin Underscorcese

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     @nyx u can trust me even more in this aspect as a queer in their mid 10s online

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     The Wolf of Wallsocket Street dir. Martin Underscorcese (larsfrommars@toot.garden)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 09:40:59 JST The Wolf of Wallsocket Street dir. Martin Underscorcese

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     @nyx mid 10s may be the most fucked up thing ive typed

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 10:54:15 JST Sexy Moon

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     @1 @elementals @nyx most people are average
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     ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: (nyx@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 10:54:16 JST ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:

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     @elementals I don't really know, I come from a different world compared to most people like this. before I started using social media on a very limited basis in 2016, my only presence on the internet was anonymous imageboards, and most of my exposure to this sorta stuff was from just pursuing it out of my own interest and also because I studied philosophy in undergrad. so it's something I've always engaged with in earnestness, and I think most people just treat these things as like, a passing bit of entertainment that they encounter in the algorithm-driven hellscape of the internet today. people learn to mimic the signs because they get to feel included in a community centered around a Potemkin village version of whatever politics or philosophy or whatever it is that they claim to care about, maybe they even read a little, but they never do the work
     
     as far as I'm concerned this is a direct consequence of the wider problem in amerikkkan culture where the humanities are treated as something that basically has no real value. it's an evolution of the "oh how are you gonna get a job with a philosophy degree huh?" smugness that I have encountered many times in my life where the humanities is now a commodity to be passively consoomed and then discarded once it ceases to be entertaining. so I absolutely will not give anyone the benefit of the doubt who does this. they're all part of the problem, I don't fucking care what brain disorder diagnosis they have. people don't do this shit with STEM, or at least not as much, because culturally we're conditioned to think that STEM is Real Intellectual Stuff and the humanities is something that only stupid people who are bad at math can do. it makes me fucking sick that not only has an entire half of human civilization/culture been reduced to a set of empty signs to be consumed, but it's something that I care a lot about, something that I'm actually good at, but I will never be taken seriously by hardly anyone, never be able to get funding to work on this stuff seriously, because we live in a fucking fallen world
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     1 (1@pleroma.1of444.top)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 10:54:16 JST 1

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     @nyx @elementals if it makes you feel better this is 100% a thing in stem, even if not to the same extent. The amount of meme-driven category theory amateurism, for example, is astounding.
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     elementals (elementals@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 10:54:17 JST elementals

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     @nyx maybe all the political dropouts were HAL'd trannies
     
     or maybe they have hella untreated ADHD and their brains are just Like That no matter how much they want it not to be
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     taylor (nik@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 11:08:05 JST taylor

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     @nyx@social.xenofem.me @elementals@social.xenofem.me I feel like this problem of ephemeral participation is generally rampant in the present internet

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     :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 11:09:30 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:

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     @nik @nyx @elementals it's the death of small to medium scale community building tools, everyone having a megaphone to a globally interconnected space serves no other purpose than to make long term commitments as difficult as possible
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     ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: (nyx@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 11:17:43 JST ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:

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     @allison @nik @elementals yeah, this is something I've noticed with fedi compared to like, discord servers. it's trivially easy to make and then delete a discord server, or move to a different one. I've never realized until recently how insidious that platform is but it really is just a fucking horrible optimization of making everything about the internet as trivial as possible
     
     fedi on the other hand, I hate fedi for the most part but running an instance and having at times even a tiny amount of users I've had a responsibility to has made me feel way more incentivized to stick with it. and it's slowly paid off over time even if the majority of the registered accounts on here posted like a handful of times and then left. it still very much feels like fighting an uphill battle though and that saddens me
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     ᚛ᚉᚈᚅ᚜ (kittenlikeasmallcat@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 22:05:05 JST ᚛ᚉᚈᚅ᚜

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     @nyx this thread gave me benediction

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