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   Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 00:57:51 JST Robert Link

   How did we ever fall for the slippery slope from unbridled vanity self-publishing to blogging to micro-blogging to tweets and toots and boosts and posts? How did I come to identify myself as someone who "needs to" or "should" do any of those things? What in the world was I, were, we thinking? And why am I perpetuating that folly with this post?

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     trektor (trektor@mastodon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 01:03:06 JST trektor

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     @phaedral STOP ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS!

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 01:18:19 JST Robert Link

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     Sock-puppeting: "To be is to be perceived."

     I, we, they do this boosting, posting, tweeting, tooting, micro-blogging, blogging, vanity self-publishing to be perceived. A click, a "like," a "visitor to a web page" is a small indicator of having been perceived, thus having been, however insignificantly or insubstantially. These things make us ever so slightly less invisible.

     Still, most systems exploit this drive for venal and draconian purposes: Corporate consumerism.

     https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/berkeley/