Notices by NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social), page 2

I didn't even mention black metal.

He didn't even try to respond to what I actually said lmfao

So far, we are zero (0) things you regard as based that aren't about your race politics, even obliquely.

Fedi has always been a microblogging service, man, come on. It's a federated Twitter clone. There's really no need to get up in arms about that characterization of it, since it's accurate.

You can talk about other things, but if you do, the thread will either get ignored or the topic will get redirected to niggerposting, tech spergery, or anime tits. But yOu sHoUlDn'T pOsT fOr EnGaGeMeNt

I think normies are learning this the hard way, what with Helldivers 2, Stellar Blade, 40k. You have to gatekeep, and in this era you need to be particularly rigid about it.

Here's the thing, I don't think there is anything to do about it, exactly. I attribute the root cause to the network effect. It isn't that fedi is unfit for the use cases I suggest from a technical level, it's that people are already on these other platforms and, to them, the culture of ban-dodging is preferable to a culture of abandoning these services.

I'm not trying to convince you to solve the problem, I'm trying to convince you that it actually is one, that it's not in my head, that it's not just one limited to my personal hobbies.

Like I said above, I'm not sure what the solution is, or if there is one. I have this theory that the network effect is a big part of it, but important people within a certain sphere draw the users, so if you convince the VIPs to jump ship then the people will follow. Evidence for this theory: Trump and Truth Social, which has more activity on it than one might realize.

There's a really weird contingent of 4chan users now that likes to think everything that isn't a wokester faggot is "/pol/". For example, I sometimes go into the World of Darkness general to post shit like pic related and there's often someone there will accuse me of "being /pol/" because I think making the Vampire: the Masquerade, Fifth Edition de facto main character a gay nigger Muslim feminist and explicitly requiring your playerbase be exclusively full of trantifa is worthy of long-term ridicule.

There's a delicate balance to be found between niche things and broad things. On the one hand, niche things attract the most interesting content, but on the other hand, there's less reach. Reach does matter. You want to find something that's niche enough that it doesn't involve a bajillion normies, but open enough that there's more than one (1) person (you) interested in it lol

I'm not going to lie, the interest-based channels on Discord/Xitter/whatever other centralized-slop services are usually a lot better than this side of fedi. There are plenty of people who get expelled from these services regularly and there's a culture of ban-dodging that has emerged.

I feel like the fedi/xmpp/matrix vs Xitter/Discord debate is just a reiterate of the Windows vs Linux debate all over again. Appeals to the technical advantages of fedi/linux just aren't going to measure up to the network effect in the mind of anybody without a bachelors in computer science. There will be some exceptions, but not many.

It's newfag LARPers getting baited and tranny jannies. I wish I were joking about the latter part. Newfags are tolerable by comparison.

I got b& for 7days for shilling my zine, so. I may start running Quests over fedi

About what? Quests, or just 4chan in general?

I'm hoping that my Quest contributions are ultimately for the better, but I won't sit here and pretend, either: I brazenly shill my zine with them. Here are the threads:

https://boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/5985838

https://boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/5985827

Yeah you could rely on that kind of metadata, but then people often don't use it in chat rooms. They're replying to a message in a chat room, but they don't click the "reply" button like they do here. Here's an example. As far as the metadata is concerned, these two messages are separated. However, they're clearly connected by the context. I'm not even sure a timer would consistently separate them correctly. People could return to a chat room hours, days after the fact and respond in this way and it would make just as much sense.

How would one make a bridge between fedi (a social media service) and a chat room (like Matrix or Discord)? Assuming it's even a good idea. You can't just have the messages scattered about into the aether, disconnected. And making it one of those never-ending threads where the last message is just a reply to the previous one, sounds kinda... just as insane, to be honest.