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anyone who is inspired to make something meaningful to them, that must unfortunately interact with the morass of structurally arbitrary technological decisions we're surrounded by, is going to be so weighed down by the torture of navigating it all that naturally whatever they originally wanted to make will quickly seem less pertinent than making ever-more-efficient wound-licking devices (or perhaps a special shoe that, with 95%+ accuracy, can detect a rake before it hits your face)

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

i think if you do a lot of stuff on the computer, programming specifically, everything is such a pain in the ass to do, not because the problems you're solving are naturally complex, but because of annoying artificial stuff like "configuring this toolchain takes an entire working week", that the cumulative effect on the soul makes your creativity atrophy, and your interests gradually turn inward, toward meta-concerns like programming language and tool design, rather than actually making anything

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Email is the best form of communication we ever invented. Instant, yet no instant reply is expected. Works universally outside of any app or ecosystem. The gold standard