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@deepy yeah, a full friends list of "online" without any indication of whether they're actively looking at discord, or it's just in the background at their phones.. not the same

i think for the past 10 years i shifted from being close to people and shut myself into being close only with our polycule while communal spaces either abused me or banned me outright. i turned into a really socially anxious creature but the need for connection is still there

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i love getting messages from people. if you're a mutual and i haven't talked to you in ever and you want to please message me. this is a problem on my end

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it's funny, on one paw i miss chatting one on one with people on MSN, on another i feel discouraged to do so in any modern fashion today

and i can't put my digit on what exactly changed. is the difference in UI/UX paradigm all there is to it? did i change? did my circles change?

while i do think that there was a lot of fucked up stuff that shouldn't have been as easy as it was for 10 year old me to find, i also think today's internet is far too sterile

"A BBS is technically social media also" -Jeff Gerstmann, 2026

i wish fxtwitter would link to nitter or nitter would render embed cards so you don't have to link to the same post twice on both URLs

@wildweasel people all around me are offering me handjobs while calling me a piece of shit

at some point between the xerox alto and the xerox star, this stuff got figured out. by the lisa it was like 80% done, by the mac it was 90% done, and by windows 95 it was 100% done. i feel like the shit i'm seeing on a daily basis is going back to circa 1977 GUI standards at best

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