@NEETzsche They're not looking to chat, they're tourists. Start thinking of normies as tourists. They visit a place, bring their culture with them, expect to be pampered, spend zero energy on discovering this new place they find themselves in and pollute everything around them with shit and plastics.
Then they go back home and complain about the people in the country they visited, only to come back again, to be able to tell themselves they had the ability to "go on holiday" and "break the routine" and feel like their lives are not totally, completely and utterly a boring routine they endure while they wait to "go on holiday".
These people want something that is 90% similar to what they already know and 10% different. They want something that they can tell people back home they did and get social credit. There is no social credit in going on IRC and chatting. Instagram has the photos, facebook has the likes, fedi currently has the hype.
The sad truth is, nobody wants to really chat, they want validation. IRC was good enough until super-validation came in the form of facebook et al.
I was on IRC back in the 90s, too. That was a shithole as well. At least it did its job well, and still does. It just solves a use-case that normies nowadays don't really want, if they're honest with themselves.
Interesting. This means that they just want what every human wants, a group to belong to, where they can pat eachother on the back and talk about things they mostly agree about. All mediums are perfect for that, IRC included. They just need someone to point them in the right direction. Tech has been taken over by big corps with an obvious benefit to keeping them uneducated and they use their grip on the masses to steer them to their next thing. Like meta working on a federated experiment, I read somewhere.
It's the clear fault of the tech sector that has allowed this crap to take place, lured by the money of the dotcom boom and silicon valley. We (I'm a techie, too) should have been advising people to get off these death platforms but we didn't. I, personally, as an IRC veteran kept telling people to get off facebook and make a website. To stop using whatsapp and instagram cause they're addiction personified. You may start to talk to family on FB but soon you're posting for likes. You may start to share your family photos with family on instagram but soon you're killing yourself over the imaginarily perfect life of your neighbor.
We let this shit happen and now that these tech giants are laying off people like there's no tomorrow for them (which is pretty close to true) we should all be feeling rather embarassed.
Feature request: Replies to edited (deleted) posts should have a button that says "reattach this reply" when the original message being replied to was edited. Should be doable since the original message is in the local DB (to have been shown) and its edited flag is also known (as opposed to a plainly deleted message). What's missing is the new edited message, dunno if that can be discovered automatically, possibly since the thread is usually still around. Even if not, I can as the user tell the thing what message to "re-post" it to by filtering edited messages from the same account in the db. @alex
that's cause it was made by aliens, written in martian then translated to english by a team of taiwanese-origin mongolian immigrants to brazil. In sanscrit.
The only thing worse than oauth2 is shibboleth. And I'm not even sure about that.
It's not going to satisfy them. Nothing can, not even public self flagellation.
Also, in a very gatekept, racist, classist and prejudiced world, trans characters are supposed to be running businesses. Stunning and brave to the max.
Um how about a scheduled job that runs periodically and does them in batches? I'm sure this is something you looked into, I imagine something made it impractical?
They are both ideologically possessed and will stop at nothing, including extreme violence, to eliminate the enemy. I don't see how your story debunks that.
Don't know about the US but it seems to me there's a lot of anarchists in antifa. Also, they seem to be a rising issue because 'fascist' is now the go-to to cancel people ("our democracy"). 'Transphobe' is wearing a little thin, what with all the L's that movement is taking lately.
It's manufactured outrage all the way down. I'm curious what's next. Maybe the "body positivity" shit?
Wow. Using an international conflict they engineered, to feed their military-industrial complex. Warmongers, opportunists and manipulators at a planetary scale and proud of themselves. Arms dealers and money launderers, moneylenders and manipulators, murderers and liars, people with souls so tainted, they could power hell for eternity. They come on the news and look straight at the camera and proclaim: we are virtuous. Believe us. Respect us. Think of the children.
When the wheel turns, as it always does, we will look back at all this and cringe.
I have a single user instance and they even managed to block me. I had like what, 2 interactions with their users? Or maybe even none. Fuck them and their artsy fartsy server