Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

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Me one hour into a sculpt: all of my polygons cry out in pain against the sins I have wrought upon them

Me five hours into a sculpt: huh, this is actually pretty good

The thing is with him, no dunk, no hot take, no appeal to reason is ever going to work. Not for as long as he's using the misery of others to fuel his own narcissistic supply.

Separate that fucker from power, though, and the results will be immediate. Can see this in microcosm once he realized firing a disabled worker would cost $100 mill.

At the small, that's meant drawing down my accounts on birdsite. At the large: tax the rich.

The thing is, I never faulted Eli for existing that way. The kid was hurting, his friends clearly put him up to it, and he was bullying to fill a hole in his life where care should have been. I hope he found a way out of it and ended up okay.

I've since had other bullies, and the story is usually the same: they hurt people because they're hurting badly themselves. And the only corrective they respond to is the power to fight back.

So too with Elon.

In which Popehat points out Elon is really just a very rich high school bully: https://post.news/@/popehat/2Mhvz30rv7RfDGhgCRKNsThYLb5

So fun story. I was bullied all the way through middle and early high school by a kid named Eli. One day, he finally got the courage to jump me after school, and I fought back. Hard.

The bullying immediately ceased. Permanently. Saw him again one time: the day he transferred out of my math class.

I think about that a lot.

@blue Happy bday! 🎈

The fictional timeline they projected forward from 2004 didn't really come to pass.

But the technologies: AWS, algorithmic social media timelines, and AI learning models, did. And it's still weird to hear all of that predicted one or two decades early.

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.