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   beard ひげ (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jun-2026 20:18:25 JST beard ひげ

   I'm beginning to wonder how many people I interact with on a daily basis, even offline, are substantially real.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 14:51:00 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @beardalaxy
     That's the problem with personas.

     I cannot describe you just how stomack-turnijg it is to hear otherwise "kind" friends talk about their absolute disgust of right wingers and incels in front of me, and when I point out that I am there, their brain literally can't handle the contradiction.

     I use Fedi to sort my thoughts. I am as real as I can get, even including the autistic part, that I know is too real even for other autists. It literally has all the benefits of therapy with no downsides.

     But, in reality, I'm just a kind nerd you wouldn't want to talk to anyway 🤣

     So, that's why I hate the saying of "The internet is not real." It is real, it just works on a different layer of our personalities.

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     beard ひげ (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 14:52:27 JST beard ひげ

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     @Jens_Rasmussen people who feel static. Inorganic. As an example, an LLM that doesn't have a large enough dataset so it is always repeating itself. People who, when challenged, seem to glitch out and either revert to factory settings or hallucinate and spit out garbage. People who seem to just lack general awareness and critical thinking skills. People who seem to lack an actual identity of their own and only maintain a facsimile of one that they have absorbed.

     I find myself having a hyper awareness that I don't see in other people and it bothers me from time to time because it feels like it should just be the standard way somebody should act. I don't think it's crazy to expect and I only say it is hyper awareness in comparison to the relative awareness I observe. If I point out a mistake someone will say sorry or try to correct it in the moment but the lasting behavior doesn't change so I know it's just empty. It's not real. A couple particular instances I don't want to expound upon are eating me alive at the moment and I can't fall asleep. Today, in general, I've been feeling this sense that I'm living in unreality.

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     Jens_Rasmussen (jens_rasmussen@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 14:52:28 JST Jens_Rasmussen

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     @beardalaxy Substantially real? As opposed to being LLMs?
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     :bigboobs: kittymaxxing :bigboobs: (rosey@nekomimi.pics)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 14:52:39 JST :bigboobs: kittymaxxing :bigboobs:

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     @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club frankly >90% of people don't even exist, they're just bodies on autopilot. you can see people 'activate' once they're within arms' reach

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 14:53:41 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • tomie

     @tomie @beardalaxy
     What the hell do you mean?

     I am terminally online to be sincere.

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     tomie@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 14:53:42 JST tomie

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     @beardalaxy sincerity is an unaffordable luxury, both terminally online autists and terminally online turbonormies can't afford it because it impacts survivability

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     tomie@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 15:44:37 JST tomie

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     • LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

     @LukeAlmighty @beardalaxy and look at where it got you, you're in the backwaters of the internet for losers like you and I, where we're blocked even by furry troons

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 16:15:11 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • tomie

     @tomie @beardalaxy
     It got me to a place, where I was finally able to integrate back into the society and find a community. It got me friends who wonder how did I manage to become an extrovert in such a short duration.

     I become healthy again.

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     tomie@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 16:31:38 JST tomie

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     • LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

     @LukeAlmighty @beardalaxy good for you, but it doesn't change the fact that this is the backwards of the internet feared by normies who manage to learn about it somehow and terminally online who have not developed critical thinking and rely on global blacklists

     and honestly, not just you, I've seen several users on this instance alone reporting better news

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 16:40:40 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @tomie @beardalaxy
     I don't get your point. That's like saying, that water is bad, because you can drown... to a fish.

     I need that level of freedom and honesty. The longhousing of facebook and schools is what drove me to the breaking point in the first place.

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     tomie@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 16:55:52 JST tomie

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     • LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

     @LukeAlmighty @beardalaxy the people I am generalising about in my statement about sincerity are not you

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     beard ひげ (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 16:59:13 JST beard ひげ

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     • tomie

     @LukeAlmighty @tomie you're online a lot, but clearly not terminally online because you still have balance. i'm on the internet a shit ton, but i still have lots of stuff going for me outside of it. that's the ideal intention, to augment rather than replace the way humans communicate and learn.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 17:03:14 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • tomie

     @beardalaxy @tomie
     I never expected to be NoTrueScotsmanned out of being a incel or a neet...

     What a weird age to be living in 🤣

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     beard ひげ (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 17:34:14 JST beard ひげ

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     • tomie

     @LukeAlmighty @tomie nah that's not what it is at all. we're living lives outside of the internet, have jobs and IRL hobbies and talk to people. some people may sensationalize some character traits to lump you in those categories but they're fucking retarded so whatever. carry on, lad.

     the kinds of people tomie's talking about are the people who either straight up sit on the internet all day and have no real life outside of it, or the normies who have let the internet completely override their normal rational thought and just go along with whatever the curated algorithm on the phone says. if i'm understanding correctly, at least.

     there have always been people like that in society as well, but i do think the internet (rather, the post-smartphone internet) has greatly exacerbated that and exposed a lot of people who otherwise might have been totally fine without its existence to a straight up worse standard of living. you had your hermits and your trend chasers, but now it seems that those groups have gotten so monolithic that it is hard to escape them. it's the hardest thing to not simply give up and join one of them, but that's where the sincerity topic comes up. sincerity is a virtue, and virtues aren't directly advantageous to the physical/societal survival of a person. they are only helpful for your soul, which there seems to be quite a lack of these days... hence my original post.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 23:26:45 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     • tomie

     @beardalaxy @tomie
     I am sorry, but you're either romanticising the hell out of the tiny progress I did made, or I have no concept of the things you're talking about.