sicklemode [they/them] @ sicklemode @hexbear.net

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These people's argument always collapses when you press them for their solutions to the problems plaguing liberal democracies. They can't talk you in circles if you keep digging for answers that you can then dismantle credibility for.

Ultimately, liberalism collapses under the pressure of dialectical materialism's analyses. Just walk them through it and they'll prove themselves to be full of shit for you.

I think they share the anxiety tone of this article's author by worrying about leftists being on the rise.

They got stomped so bad they even deleted their account over there.

To the libs: If you're gonna fuck around, know what you're talking about otherwise you're gonna get people jumping on your fuckin' head.

Censoring leftist opinions interests will be much harder.

We're way too dependent on words like "opinions" and "disagreements" which are much, much better replaced with words like "interests" and "disputes". This way, we can further eliminate the cultural phenomenon of debatebros talking people in circles.

Good take, though.

Most people wouldn't let the first person they stop on the street sift through their camera roll. They want their achievements, failures, and little life moments to be kept sacred. So after a decade of airing our most intimate moments in public, the pendulum is shifting back. People are more selective with their communities and are reverting back to an old-school way of interacting. It's hard to know how the change will affect the online atmosphere over the long term — some evidence suggests the shift will create a healthier digital experience, but it also risks further dividing people into like-minded echo chambers.

The collapsing of US state-affiliated social media platforms' hegemony is finally upon us. They use these platforms for war (psychological warfare more than anything) and cheating, just like every other channel of influence, and working class people have had enough of being fucked over and manipulated, as well as being enslaved to doom scrolling. I've been patiently waiting for over a decade for this. Now, finally, people are pivoting back to high quality discourse and relationship building. We're also increasingly seizing the means of communication (think Lemmy and other equivalents under the AGPLv3 license), which puts the control of culture firmly in our own hands.

70% Of China's Millennials Own Homes. Sorry America — The Political Vigilante

Heard it from here what you pointed out.

Happy to hear it! Best of luck with the new person in your life

Comrades, send me your energy!

Very happy for you getting a date with a like-minded person. Please, get some rest when you can, though.

We all need our creative outlets. It's good for our esteem to make stuff we like, that isn't primarily intended to serve someone else.

I've made a couple sites too that I have saved for time capsule purposes, and I genuinely enjoy viewing them once in a great while.

Of course. Again, I feel ashamed for not catching that the first time around, and apologize.

Terribly sorry, updated to include it.

It's a pretty interesting little game, no doubt.

There's also https://vede.itch.io/the-communist-dogifesto, which I adore for the replayability, the lore, as well as the System Shock-like experience.

https://colestia.itch.io/they-came-from-a-communist-planet

https://fauux.neocities.org/ (CW: Epilepsy risk) (edited to the original)

Hexbear is the last fun place on the internet

I dunno what we are in now but the old web was better. 1.0 sucked. 2.0 was good though. You had all these nich communities bubbling with energy and ideas. Now it is just reddit and psyops and comodification.

https://neocities.org/browse

Hexbears should help expand our creativity on the web, by taking inspiration from NeoCities (successor to GeoCities). Not everything has to be sterile and bland and boring. I'd even like to be able to customize our profile pages more than just things like the banner and profile picture. I mean, just look at how much life can be breathed into a site with so much flexibility. Look at all the colors and non-standard layouts. What the web as lost is personality, which we should be taking back. We're on FOSS sites here in the Fediverse. We can do better, and we shouldn't be too afraid to take risks by deviating from what's accepted as "normal" these days.

We had way better tools for self-expression on older formats like early YouTube, MySpace, etc etc. We don't have to stay the course of sterile, standardized, corporatized web formats.

The original point of using the web was making things beautiful and tinkering around with different designs. It was to tell a story with the layout. That was part of the content itself, not just what we say and do online.

Edit: https://yesterweb.org/ (on NeoCities) has plenty of good and interesting information on this general topic of a worse present web (a manifesto, if you will)

Critical support to Microsoft for making Windows more and more uninhabitable and Linux increasingly sexier for all

Communism will win, even in cyberspace and software

Expect the US to ramp up protectionism efforts. China's technology is real good and getting better quite fast, but at the same time I'm skeptical of whether or not those of us living in the US will be able to actually benefit once it's clear that China has surpassed them in all respects technologically.

We could all be using Huawei cell towers and phones right now, enjoying end-to-end encrypted cellular correspondence and way fucking better internet speeds, but the US has done everything in its power to keep us frozen in time using dog shit legacy technology that's easy to man-in-the-middle, and also absurdly expensive due to lack of competing infrastructure and arrested national development.

I'd like to have all my electronics 100% sourced and manufactured, patented, etc etc all in and by China. But, like an abusive ex-partner whose mission is to prevent all attempts at your happiness and punish you for divorcing them, I expect the US to block access to such things at some point.