139 over here. The most confusing part about it is that parents are often also neurodivergent and so whacky behaviour can be normalised during childhood. Then we get out into the world and have to learn a load of nuanced social cues in order to fit in. It is very strange to find out as a 47 year old that your experience is significantly different to most people and set about unlearning those masking behaviours.

Cultivating a good working routine is fulfilling but it’s a long road and we should not criticise people who struggle with this. When I hear people railing against authority figures it makes me cringe because it’s a sign that they’ve been mistreated (oppositionally defiant disorder).

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The workshop build continues, year 6. Getting my lathe back into action after a six year hiatus. She’s also receiving an upgrade - variable frequency drive.

They tried to shoehorn a social component into Reddit post hoc but it is essentially a lurkers habitat and distinct from the walled gardens of FB, etc. that was the draw for me and now it’s been enshitified, too bad. I’ve been on Lemmy ever since the API culling, I think this concept has got legs and it’s a credible alternative.

Even my cat is like ‘leave me alone, wtf is wrong with you?’ This is the long road to becoming a socially acceptable person. None of this is written down or ever stated by anyone but if you violate social norms too much you end up quite lonely.

Everywhere the English went they created first past the post electoral systems which are notoriously vulnerable to this situation. We shouldn’t be surprised but we should be asking for something better before it’s too late to make meaningful change.

In that case we have to rely on Elons white power.

Maybe those are the subreddits to inhabit but they will inevitably devolve into content and moderation that serves the lowest common denominator as they grow past ~100k subscribers. That seems to be the case generally, whatever the platform. The scale motivates dysfunctional behaviour and we have to either accept it or move on. I feel better off social media in general but miss the discussion.

Deception on the scale they are proposing with this bot experiment would be a disaster for personal relationships, it’s definitely not okay. I think of those subreddits as a type of entertainment, it’s not my thing but I understand how people are titillated by stories of personal trauma. It was one of the many reasons I permanently abandoned Reddit after fifteen years, it has become a cesspit of bullshit. Some people like rolling about in that stuff, others don’t understand it’s shit.

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I don’t know what your experience is on Reddit but mine came to be that what I was reading couldn’t be trusted. I remember stumbling across a post on some technical subject that I happen to understand very well and couldn’t believe the twaddle that was advanced in the comments with utter conviction and certainty. It got me thinking about all the things I had read and just accepted because I know nothing about them. This is our information landscape, for better or worse.

Why should it be any different in a role playing scenario? These platforms are motivating engagement and people love an emotional story and so that is presented to us. If we loved true stories more, we would get them instead. I don’t think there’s any malice intended, we’re getting what we want because morons love their feels over their knowledge. It’s the reason the Americans have Trump and Elon and antivax, these people inhabit social media but it is the last thing they should turn to for truth because they are dumb as a sack of rocks and are getting played, shorty.

What difference does it make if you’re talking to a bot? We never meet our interlocutors anyway. Would these people have the same reaction if it were revealed they were talking to a role playing person because I’m pretty sure we’ve already done that many times over.

It sucks that we can’t maintain much of our machinery. This problem is most acute with anything that has embedded code. Good luck with your search.

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Well said. Anarchism has received horrible press at the hands of Big Democracy but many of our current problems are rooted in the concentration of power, money and influence that capitalist societies seem to produce. On the other hand, can we live without the many products and technology that require large scale effort? It feels like that would be a major challenge for any fledgling anarchic society.

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Jokes on you, I already have crabs

You could also argue that this was a very old man. Is god asleep at the wheel?

I wonder if there are cases where the system malfunctioned and went read only early? Presumably there would be some means of reversing it that you could exploit. Their customer service dept might have the answer.