Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

I still think about this video a lot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014

Mirrored on YT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s

@Dragonhead Thank you!

@chr Anyway, that's a lot of words to say that if you want to interact with folks only on birdsite, do it. They'll be there a while.

And what's happening to it is a cycle that'll turn towards alternatives eventually, but this whole thing will repeat onto the next services onwards for as long as people remain social creatures.

@chr The good news though, especially with Discord, is that a lot of us have been around this block more than once -- and know how to back shit up and host them online when the services inevitably go dark.

So the plans that muskrat has to silence critics online, and the fear that Discord closing will one day knock out large swathes of culture -- will happen, but will also be much less terrible once folks collect back together.

And this will happen every 7-10y or so.

@chr Anyway, tl;dr: even though we've seen very large interest in Masto, it's still a few years out before Twitter is meaningfully going to fail unless it buckles unrecoverably. A lot of terribleness will be absorbed and be handwaved away because Twitter is still a useful service without a meaningful alternative that retains its simplicity, dopamine loop, and culture.

Same with FA, with the bonus that no one has successfully simplified how gallery sites work yet.

@chr In that continuum, I saw a lot of folks set up alternatives (including mainstream journalists!) then not really use them. Experts left, and quite a few big accounts saw success with reduced followings here.

I think we can expect that the majority of folks only switch when the pain of staying is much greater than sticking around. Also, expect laziness to do work here if they find something easier to use: the old platform will gradually become irrelevant.

@chr It took multiple years after it was acquired for folks to finally leave LJ, and some folks sticked on well past its server migration to RU. By comparison, folks only left AIM, ICQ, MSN when Microsoft shuttered it for Skype, offering no alternative to migrating. Tumblr lost most of its actives overnight due to the "porn" account bans.

By comparison, Blogger, MySpace, and others had more of a slow migration towards newer spaces, and are now mostly irrelevant.

@keeri Thank you!

Anyway, sharing this mostly for introverts having trouble sharing this and extroverted folks who care a ton and fail to understand why their introverted friend is sad and avoiding attention on their birthday.

Proper care and feeding of your introvert is important, and what may have no cost and be easy for you may be different. Doing your best to take the load off and live their experience is so, so valuable. 💜

This message brought to you by loving and caring family who pulled me into a Zoom call to wish me happy birthday, used two phone calls with me to bargain for schedule, then tried to drag me to a big birthday dinner with lots of people.

No, please, I beg of you, I just want a day to chill and vibe with my friends and without my specific anxiety of coordinating with large groups of people.

Today's my hatchday. It's on the balance been positive, but I kind of want to package a specific anxiety from it that family (no one here) have flared up unintentionally, in case it helps other introverted folks like me struggle to communciate this to well-meaning people they love.

I like the attention, I love the well wishes, and I love being recognized on my special day, but please don't make social obligations for me that I am expected to meet. I just want to relax and vibe.

@Dex (Even if it seems kind of insubstantial in hindsight or after suspension of disbelief wears off: being the small friend in VR, having paws and a tail in VR, and the general euphoria of being the shape and size you want to be is very very very very good.)