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1. 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 08:43:37 JST 寮
   The internet of 20 years ago was so much better... https://social.076.moe/url/7102
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 08:55:07 JST Terminal Autism

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     Other than the speed, there's not a single thing that didn't get worse, and even the speed got slower after the JavaScript infestation. Remember when websites opened instantly? Yeah, I liked second half of the 2000s too. https://social.076.moe/url/7123
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   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 09:10:40 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     That would have been even more back in time, I remember there was a time where Flash, Shockwave, and Active X took over the entire internet, which made stuff inaccessible if you didn't have Internet Exploiter on your computer.
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 09:27:10 JST Terminal Autism

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     Yeah, but that was a minority of the web. And I was stuck with dial-up until around 2005.
   • Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 08:56:34 JST Wrongthink

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     @ryo I’ve been reflecting on this noticeable change and have begun to suspect that the movement for online safe spaces/hugboxes has been propelled by entities preparing to pull off the scamdemic, as getting everyone hooked on controlled online spaces was a precondition to steering the fake narrative. It’s just a theory atm

   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 12:08:46 JST 寮

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     • Wrongthink
     The internet wasn't designed to be like that though, it's those who took subverted it who made it that way.
     Which is why I'm advocating for moving to the darknets while it's still possible, because there's going to be a time where it's going to be too late, and the only people on Tor and I2P will be those of us who already knew about it before the clearnet became entirely controlled by (((THEM))).
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 12:26:39 JST Terminal Autism

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     • Wrongthink
     I do worry about that. Being completely isolated from normalfags is better on an individual level, but it also means that they are not going to see the things that you say. In my case, though, I think it's fine to let other people bridge the gap, because normalfags cannot understand what I say anyway.
     
     Also, the only website that they use that to me is even bearable in terms of having content that interests me is YouTube, but it's easy to get shadowbanned there, and I already did in 2021. It's also difficult to be seen, because it's so infested with trash. It's also unusable for posting videos unless you dox yourself because of the time limit.
     
     Anyway, the most normalfaggy website that I post on is Odysee, and even there, it's pretty easy to tell that some people are just hopeless. Still, it is an environment where I was able to spread information. I don't really know what to do now. I think trying to wake people up in real life may actually be more effective, even if that involves just showing people videos, or whatever. But it's hard to know what to do, because if they still don't know what is going on, then what the hell could possibly wake them up?
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 12:45:23 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     > Being completely isolated from normalfags is better on an individual level, but it also means that they are not going to see the things that you say.
     
     Which is actually a good thing.
     Let the normies swim in the diarhea they themselves pooped out, the only exception are those who are legit willing to learn how to use computers the right way, I don't mind letting them into the good stuff.
     
     > then what the hell could possibly wake them up?
     
     A giant meteor perhaps?
     Sometimes we'll have to accept that some people are beyond repair, which is exactly why isolating from them is a good thing.
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 13:04:51 JST Terminal Autism

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     Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel, but at the same time, if people don't try to reach them, the chance of success is 0%, while if they do try, maybe it's still 0%, but it's probably at least higher than at, and even if we fail, at least we tried.
     
     Of course, I did already try to a degree and I woke a few people up, so I could say that my job is done, but I don't know if other people are doing that, and I maybe could do more. Really, every single person should wake up at least one other person. If people did that, we could actually turn this around. Especially when any of those people could be the next popular person that wakes up a million people. That will never be me, but it could be someone else.
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 14:35:31 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     Not sure how to accomplish an awakening other than letting tyranny exist for a while.
     If you try to "wake up" on JewTube, then either you'll get banned, or attract a bot audience only (or most likely both at the same time).
     If you try to "wake up" on alt tech, you might get either glowniggers roasting you in the comments, or other so-called "awake" people calling you a shill for not being on par with their beliefs systems.
     If you try to "wake up" on federated protocols, you might either wake up people who already are awake, or get troons to niggerlist your ass (or both most likely).
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 15:58:38 JST Terminal Autism

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     Well, there are individual people that are not hopeless. It's all about recruiting more people who can then themselves do the same. I can't have much of an effect on normalfags, but I can affect people that are more normal than me (which is pretty much everyone, even in the better places), who can then get to people that are a little more normal than then, and so on. Again, if each person tried until succeeding once, we wouldn't be in this situation.
     
     The problem is that most people aren't doing their damn job because they think they can have no effect (and by not trying, they guarantee that they won't make things better for even one person), and just wait for famous/popular people to come save them, and there is no way that a few people can possibly make up for that.
     
     Hell, this is how we got to this point in the first place. People refuse to do their work, and they outsource everything to other people, including their thinking, and spreading ideas, and improving the world. Evil people take advantage of that. And then good people have to make up for them not doing anything to defend their own fucking rights. That would be fine if it only affected them. but if they lose their rights, we lose ours. We'll be hunted down no matter where we go.
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   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 17:11:58 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     I've done my part already, some people decided to wake up and do their own research from there, many others decided that I'm just some weird tinfoil hat and that it's time to cancel me out of their lives.
     
     This is what I call natural selection; one person worth anything will survive, while the rest will be gone soon.
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Dec-2022 17:13:06 JST 寮

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     Instead of "one person" I meant to say "one portion".
   • Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 08:08:30 JST Wrongthink

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     @terminalautism Sharing the nuanced information with people in real life is also a struggle. Unless they’re already asking questions (online or off) it’s an uphill battle. I’d say just let your position be known and only elaborate if they become engaged.

   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 12:10:07 JST Terminal Autism

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     • Wrongthink
     Actually, never mind, I never talk to people. I am just assuming that I ever will but that's unlikely. Still, you can show things to people that you know, in real life, and they will see it, while online it all gets either buried in the ocean of crap or deleted and shadowbanned.