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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • But it’s not about replicating what Reddit was about, then or now. It’s about getting back to what we had before the centralisation of the net but with the lessons learnt. To build a more egalitarian platform without the necessity to drive engagement at whatever cost.

    We don’t need to, nor should look to set up tooling with what we learnt from Reddits failures. We’re building a new, better experience of the web and we definitely shouldn’t be looking to just migrate the user base from one site to a bunch of federated servers. We need people to definitely experience a cultural cleanse. Not to just have an exodus from there with all the bad habits and aggressions. We know where that path leads.

    We are on the cusp of a potential paradigm shift of the internet and we can shape what it becomes!

    Exciting times!



  • It’s going to be the same when people bailed Digg.

    They all complained about the interface and lack of features but then spent all their time pasting ascii images comments and starting pun threads.

    I would rather there be a slow decline in Twitter & Reddit than a mass exodus. An immediate consequence is the loss of signal to noise ratio and that would be too much to take for a second time!

    [Apologies for the double post - liftoff indicated that it had failed to post both times]




  • The term “neurodivergent” implies that there’s nothing wrong with you if you have ADHD–you’re just special and different.

    I think that’s definitely something you’ve inferred but is not necessary implied.

    For me, it perfectly describes a wide range of neurodivergent conditions such as ADHD, ASD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, et al. It describes a threshold that makes those different from neuro-diversity to where that person has a disorder that impacts their daily life.

    Conversely, I feel that the term ‘neurotypical’ implies that theres nothing wrong with that person when those who are NT, tend to not say what they mean, talk in riddles and hold some very strange assumed opinions about things as well as considering themselves to be normative, very much to the detriment of those they think are outside the parameters they set in their minds.

    “Mental illness” is really the only other option

    That would imply there is a cure, which there absolutely is not, and that there is a normative ‘well’ condition.