DidacticDumbass

Stupid. It is like someone getting mad that I can download a website and have an arvhived copy.

If something is publicly available, I get to have it.

I feel strongly about this for any art. Creators are so desparate to shove their stuff into our senses and get paid for it. No one is ever obliged to spend their time and resources on anything people make.

If you don't want someone to steal your work, keep it to yourself.

If the art actually mattered, if the message was important and necessary, it would be given away, there would be no barrier.

Anyways, the monetization system is fucked and rewards the worst people. Google will never get my money ever again.

Ug. Yes. Politics is important and inevitable but ultimately exhausting to look at. Just impotent yelling across the ether.

An analogy that I have been using is that politics is like linguistics. It is useful to study language in a granular way from morphemes to phonetics to syntax to discourse analyses, and everything in between. The structure of a language is fascinating, it helps to discover its relationship to other languages, and it can reveal profound things about the cultures that would otherwise be lost.

Yet, studying linguistics does not make anyone better at learning to speak, read, write, and understand other language. It does nothing for fluency. Nobody learns a language to only talk about the language, they do it to connect to other people or to experience art and media in its original form.

Political discussion is not action, by itself it does nothing to improve the world, it only serves to bias us and disort reality.A person can only hope to be inspirational and change the minds of the prejudiced.

... sorry for rant there. I have way too many opinion about politics for someone who does not care to see it either.

I feel that. I thought it was just me, but it was so hard to just connect to any other instances outside of what flowed in the timeline. When I did it just took me to the website instead of integrating with the instance.

Trying to keep up with the Federated timeline was nauseating, but it also fruitless adding every person with an interesting post.

It sucks. I just don't like the Twitter format.

Interesting people are not interesting all of the time, and following people usually just results in your feed loading up with complaints, gossip and drama.

I want to talk about things and ideas, not people.

That makes sense. Discord basically a hub for all things geek and popular culture. As much as I love gaming, I do not form my identity and life around it. I can't imagine the pain of even searching for a mature conversation on there.

I have never liked Discord. It is like IRC with more steps, more surveillance, an excess of security features that doesn't actually make anything secure.

I should give Element another chance. I think I had it before, but I was confused on how to find rooms.

I am old enough to had accessed the internet right as it was becoming mainstream so it was that "old web" people are nostalgic for, yet young enough that I did not understand some of the fucked up shit I saw. I have vague memories of stuff that I frankly will never mention, as well as all the porn my older brother looked at because he was too stupid to clear his browsing history.

Still, I think these things are worth exploring. This fear we have I feel is a reason why large companies were quickly able to take control. People wanted a safe space, a sanitized internet. Now we talk about the good old days of the web like it doesn't exist anymore.

It does, we just don't know how to find them anymore, and most people want instant gratification instead of taking the time to explore lovingly crafted websites that often were like mazes and held secrets waiting to be discovered. It is art.

On the other hand, Wired has always been trash. I used to adore starting in elementary school ever since I picked one up at a dentist reception area. Had a subscription all the way up until the end of high school. I loved the articles, the reply to readers at the back of the magazine, but most of all the gadget reviews a la Cool Tools by Kevin Kelly.

In retrospect it is a luxury lifestyle brand magazine with more advertisements than actual interesting content. The books always felt thick, but the damn thing would become a shitty pamphlet if you take out the ads.

Freenet was my first and only taste of the "deep web." I was honestly a bit afraid to explore it. Not because it is illegal or anything, but because I am always afraid of stumbling into something heinous and abominable.

I do think there is something wildly intriguing about exploring a space outside of mainstream protocals, like walking into a secret library, or an outsider art gallery. Maybe I will discover some revelation provided by a mysterious benefactor unconcerned with broadcasting to the masses.

Or just whatever the lame opposite of that is.

This is the kind of dumb trash that makes me apolitical. Just like being athiest, I think having extreme beliefs that privileges abstract ideologies over real humanity activitely makes people less empathetic and more dangerous.

The breadth of the human experience is so much bigger than the desparate shouts of politicians and their distracted followers.

Even if communism in its platonic form is closer to a humane government system than capitalism, I still don't want to be constantly exposed to it.

Why, because political discussions are more concerned with complaining about a flawed system - AKA a flawed group of people erroneously granted too much power - than it is actually about solving problems.