@sun Yeah, I sympathize with that completely. It's just, I feel disillusioned with fedi, and I don't think the issue is the software itself. I think normies are actually nigger cattle, they're hylics, NPCs, whatever term you want to use.

I went to BasedCon and was on a panel about digital vs print books, and as you might know, I have a light printing press in my garage. They let me on the panel for that reason, expecting me to be an anti-digital ideologue, but the truth is, I'm more like an anti-censorship and pro-creativity ideologue.

One thing I noticed about everybody on that panel, and everybody attending it, is that they were basically institutionalized. The argument for ebooks revolved around Kindle. It was Kindle this, Kindle that, and how Amazon can take away your books by revoking access to them. When I brought up publishing DRM-free books, they looked at me like I had three heads.

Conversely, the print media side of it was all the same stuff: what if you can't find an outfit to print your books, what if you get charged too much, and so on. When I raised: "Why not acquire the equipment to make our own books from scratch and build a parallel economy." They also looked at me like I had three heads.

Now consider, the people at BasedCon are all rightoids, conservatives, mostly religious people. They're off the reservation politically. Quite frankly, these people are oppressed; they aren't free to express themselves and tons of effort by the state and the private sector are levied to try to preclude them from doing so. Yet they still insisted, for some reason, on using these institutions, institutions that openly hated them.

And to loop back to this, so too is the case with social media. Functionally, fedi is a federated Twitter clone. People can argue that it's something else, but really, that's how people view it, and that's how people use it. But the thing is, people don't actually want to get off Twitter, or Facebook, or whatever. They want those "platforms" to reform and cater to them. Unrealistic as that might be, this is the hill people are dying on. It's decided already. They won't get off the reservation and start from scratch. Instead, they will turn the reservation into some kind of attrition war until they find themselves ina literal gulag.