Zompist Bboard Again

Great job following the “don’t eat the newbies” rule, everybody!

In future, if you suspect a new user of being an old user under a new name, please share your suspicions with me or Zompist and not, you know, freaking everyone.

Welcome, Nachtswalbe. I hope you enjoy it here.

Welcome to the ZBB, Nachtswalbe! And don't mind those who assume that anyone new must be he who shall not be named in disguise.

Oh yeah, good idea. Welcome, Nachtswalbe! Gherkins and chai! What German do you know?
Sorry for thinking you might be Bob because of your denial.

Btw, pickles and tea are our traditional offerings to new users.

Relatedly, I have never visited Twitter ever, but I have encountered videos and comments from varying degrees of right-leaning people and they always complain about Twitter as if Twitter is like 99.999% leftwing SJW morality-police anti-freespeech fun-ruiners, when I'm pretty sure Twitter has just as many rightwing bastions on that platform. On the other hand, I've never had people in my leftwing circles whine about twitter being a rightwing cesspit. I think they complain about Reddit to the same degree as well.

I don't quite get how people can evaluate Twitter as a whole. I can see people having problems on Facebook where it seems to be expected that you friend your cousins and grade school acquaintances. But you don't have to do that on Twitter. I have a pretty small friends list and it's still a big time sink.

Anyway, parts of Twitter are delightful. Semiticist Twitter is lots of fun— right now, people are sharing translations of the Star Wars opening crawl into ancient languages.

I spend way too much time on the Ribbonfarm sphere of mechanical engineer-turned-philosopher for VCs Venkatesh Rao, a self-proclaimed both-tongue-in-cheek-and-literally sociopathic amoralist whose adherence to a modified version of High Modernism ("English, Spanish and Chinese are adapted to Modernity, smaller languages will only be spoken by lumpenproles") and his post-rationalist (a reaction to Yudkowsky's ratsphere) and its weird hangerons, and my feed is filled with Politics Discussion so

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:34 pm I spend way too much time on the Ribbonfarm sphere of mechanical engineer-turned-philosopher for VCs Venkatesh Rao, a self-proclaimed both-tongue-in-cheek-and-literally sociopathic amoralist whose adherence to a modified version of High Modernism ("English, Spanish and Chinese are adapted to Modernity, smaller languages will only be spoken by lumpenproles") and his post-rationalist (a reaction to Yudkowsky's ratsphere) and its weird hangerons, and my feed is filled with Politics Discussion so

What... does this mean?

dɮ the phoneme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:08 pm

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:34 pm I spend way too much time on the Ribbonfarm sphere of mechanical engineer-turned-philosopher for VCs Venkatesh Rao, a self-proclaimed both-tongue-in-cheek-and-literally sociopathic amoralist whose adherence to a modified version of High Modernism ("English, Spanish and Chinese are adapted to Modernity, smaller languages will only be spoken by lumpenproles") and his post-rationalist (a reaction to Yudkowsky's ratsphere) and its weird hangerons, and my feed is filled with Politics Discussion so

What... does this mean?

venkatesh rao is a business blogger who latched onto an obscure splinter sect of the california human potential movement

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:26 pm I don't quite get how people can evaluate Twitter as a whole. I can see people having problems on Facebook where it seems to be expected that you friend your cousins and grade school acquaintances. But you don't have to do that on Twitter. I have a pretty small friends list and it's still a big time sink.

The problem with Twitter is that it's just not moderated, or not very well, with predictable results.
Oh and you get a lot of unsolicited opinion since tweets people you follow liked or replied to show up in your TL whether you like it or not. (You can block people, though, which has kind of the nostalgic charm of the plonkfile).

Other than that, it's still pretty fun, as long you curate your 'following' list carefully enough to stay far away from the politcal debates.

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 10:35 pm

dɮ the phoneme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:08 pm

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:34 pm I spend way too much time on the Ribbonfarm sphere of mechanical engineer-turned-philosopher for VCs Venkatesh Rao, a self-proclaimed both-tongue-in-cheek-and-literally sociopathic amoralist whose adherence to a modified version of High Modernism ("English, Spanish and Chinese are adapted to Modernity, smaller languages will only be spoken by lumpenproles") and his post-rationalist (a reaction to Yudkowsky's ratsphere) and its weird hangerons, and my feed is filled with Politics Discussion so

What... does this mean?

venkatesh rao is a business blogger who latched onto an obscure splinter sect of the california human potential movement

This. Basically a pseudointellectual for an obscure fringe movement online that I wasted too much time on.

I am on Twitter: https://twitter.com/megravethornru
Also I'm on Discord: mèþru (they/she/he)#1169

I am now also on twitter: @dlzhthephoneme, also tumblr: @Max1461

I now have a schlaugh.

What's a schlaugh?

Ares Land wrote: ↑Fri Nov 06, 2020 8:11 am What's a schlaugh?

Schlaugh is a blogging platform focused on a measured production and consumption experience. It updates at the same time every day and you can only post once per day. You can’t see who follows you nor respond directly to posts (though you can tag others and a general tag, “milkshake”, is used as a catch-all for posts you want to reach a wider audience). It’s very zen.

I'm now on tumblr: enbylvania65000.tumblr.com/

I suggest people who want to maintain contact with me long-term reach out on discord or at least my twitter or tumblr, because I'm really not sure the board's changed enough for me to want to stay here. I'll be taking an indefinite break now.

TikTok lured me in with those sea shanties.

SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME

I won't ever download tiktok, but I too am in love with the shanty trend.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:51 pm SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME

TO BRING US SUGAR AND TEA AND RUM

Do these all count as social media?

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vijay.john.543792/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb4FHy ... zZh_9KNYug
Twitter: @VijayJohn5
Reddit: u/Depietate
Discord: Vijay#5848

Discord and Messenger are the ones I use the most.