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  • 🔧 At about Midnight EST I am going to completely fuck up the site trying to fix something.
psst Kiwifarms is social media too
Forums don't count, "social media" didn't start becoming a term used for anything until Facebook exploded.
Yeah, a lot of people now seem to call basically the entire internet "social media". If we're going by that definition, then Usenet and AOL chatrooms were social media, too.

Personally, I consider things like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. to be distinct from forums in that they're structured entirely differently. Forums were built to accommodate multiple people having a discussion on a set topic and what the reader follows is the topic, while social media platforms were built around the idea of individual users each broadcasting streams of content, and what the reader follows is a given user.

Part of the reason the internet sucks so much these days is because people try to use social media platforms for multi-person discussions, but they're really bad at it because that functionality was added as an afterthought. It's like trying to eat cereal with a fork: It technically works, but it's obviously a shitty tool for the job.
 
But it's all in good fun.
>implying I'd ever insult anyone with Darjeeling on their profile pic
When the status quo is oversocialization (see Ted Kaczynski for development of the concept; he explains at length how oversocialization is a discernible social problem), healthy socialization will appear as "antisocial". Don't worry about being "less social" than the mentally ill. Just work on being social and having your social interactions be meaningful.
Jewsh was talking about it on Rekaita's stream. Is the book ( if it's even a book )actually good or was it just trolling. I have literally zero intentions of going back to living in caves but are there any good points other than notax-cavemen bullshit?
No NAMBLA? I'm out.
Between GLAAD and the ADL I'm pretty sure that group is covered
 
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Jewsh was talking about it on Rekaita's stream. Is the book ( if it's even a book )actually good or was it just trolling. I have literally zero intentions of going back to living in caves but are there any good points other than notax-cavemen bullshit?
35,000 words is a good size book. ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm ) There's a lot of really ahead-of-the-time analysis going on, much of which is applicable today. Kaczynski was talking about social trends in '95 that many people did not start discussing until 20 years later. In particular, he explains how leftism is bad for society, that if there is hope for environmental concerns, it must come from the right, and explains that feelings of inferiority and oversocialization are the mental illnesses underscoring leftist ideology.

Until we shift back to the right (may or may not be happening now), the work will still be current, which says a lot for a piece written in the 90s. It is unironically one of my favorite pieces of literature of the 20th century.

Kaczynski was a very talented mathematician, with piercing insight, and his "manifesto" reflects his position way out on the long tail of the bell curve of the intellect.
 
The libs on Twitter should be glad they didn't get forcibly removed, mass reported and unpersoned like the moderate to right wingers did.
The huge difference here is that people on the right want to have conversations with people from all walks of life. They have even been bending over backwards to attempt to accommodate every snow flake rule sites like Twitter have.
 
So who else is considering the unthinkable and going to sign up for twitter?
I'm waiting a week or two to let things settle down before appealing the ban of my old ~4k follower #GamerGate account. If I can't get an appeal through, I will not be returning to Twitter. I'm happy on Gab, and joined the Fediverse a few weeks back, which is another great Twitter alternative.
 
LMAO. That didn't take long.
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This tweet should be read to the soundtrack of a 1970s blaxploitation movie.
 
Until we shift back to the right (may or may not be happening now), the work will still be current, which says a lot for a piece written in the 90s. It is unironically one of my favorite pieces of literature of the 20th century.
I think you might have missed something in Uncle Ted's work. The problem isn't solved by voting for one party or the other. Ted is very clear that the issue is the entire system and we cannot recover from this at all without dismantling it. Leftism is a symptom of the technological society we live in, not the cause of it.
 
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