Post #1364213
2025-05-23 19:11 UTC
Replies (23)
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@keirFox@tiggi.es 2025-05-23 19:20
"That makes you old." Maybe. But more and more I feel a lot of this is about exchanging self in response to a perceived need to monetize one's world and/or to find people are desperate for: community.
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social 2025-05-23 19:15
@keirFox 2025 Declaration of Independence, Just needs a When in the Course of human events.....
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@celestestormysea@yiff.life 2025-05-23 19:16
@keirFox Oui :blobfoxcheer: 🤗
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@KayOhtie@blimps.xyz 2025-05-23 19:21
@keirFox I get teased sometimes by my partner that I'll eventually be invited to the Partner program on Twitch, and the idea kinda terrifies me. I sometimes get it showing me stats on "Path to Partner" and it's like... I don't really care. I don't want to have to beg for audience or work harder to maintain viewers or whatever. I just wanna have fun baking and sharing my knowledge and learning more in the process as well. I just want to have a nice time and make other friends who've wanted to bake but have been unsure to jump in and do their own thing. The day I have to work for it is the day I'll hate doing it.
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@arcturax@chitter.xyz 2025-05-23 19:24
@keirFox I would take all that and add "I hate how everyone just wants to run a hustle on me these days"
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@DynHafren@mastodon.world 2025-05-23 19:59
@keirFox I don’t even understand what these things are. I’ll just get on with ‘the idiocy of rural life,’ as Marx put it
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@foxyloon@blimps.xyz 2025-05-23 20:25
@keirFox Yeeeeep. I’ve always been a huge tech nerd, but this exact behavior and trend towards hustling to chase a grift or appease the algorithm is part of what’s killing the joy of it for me. I’m so fucking sick of it too. To the point where I just want to unplug everything and go enjoy nature instead.
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@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-05-23 20:37
@keirFox What do you want to do?
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@frigginglorious@freeradical.zone 2025-05-23 20:40
@keirFox these are great song lyrics.
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@JackRacc@furry.engineer 2025-05-23 20:51
@keirFox @tilton while Odysee is nice in concept, we need a distributed file system based video sharing protocol that doesn't use blockchain to store videos. It's already clear most people can't self host videos on Peertube without massive bandwidth costs.
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@fanchon_nowak@piaille.fr 2025-05-23 21:08
@keirFox yes.
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@kzorrofuego@pawb.fun 2025-05-23 21:09
@keirFox And be sure to like and SubScribble and hit the bell and HOW ABOUT I GOUGE MY OWN EYES OUT AND FALL OFF A CLIFF.... I feel you. I really do. I'm beyond sick of it as well.
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@VATVSLPR@c.im 2025-05-24 20:41
@keirFox This is the real scourge of social media. It pushes people to publicize their whole lives. Even worse, it pushes everyone to judge each other's lives, which makes the people who buy in feel like they have to present the perfect image. Nobody can live up to the standards of social media, so their lives become a curated performance rather than an actual life. It's "Keeping Up With The Joneses" turned up to 11.
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Good thing participation is optional.
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@bosonicvinegar@meow.social 2025-05-24 23:02
@keirFox You can monetize my eyeballs when you pluck them from my cold, dead skull.
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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2025-05-25 00:37
@keirFox I hear you. I just want to write short stories and let people read half of them for free. I don't want to have a website for my books. I don't want to be on Facebook. I don't want to send queries, or search for agents, or publishers.
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@JohannesStarke@norden.social 2025-05-25 09:23
@keirFox So so true!
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@evilcookies98@mastodon.stickbear.me 2025-05-25 09:59
@keirFox I do the content creator thing, but I do it because it’s fun. I do it because of those chat messages that pour in that say keep doing what you’re doing because you’re making my life better. I do it for the other messages that come in that read something along the lines of every time I come in here I have fun.
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@dedicto@zeroes.ca 2025-05-25 10:55
@keirFox Amen to ALL of that! #EnshittificationOfEverything
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@bursaar@mastodon.ie 2025-05-25 11:28
@keirFox Browsing the web used to be a fun adventure full of weirdos.
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@mira@shark.community 2025-05-25 19:03
@keirFox Preach it, Brother! We repeat this tech cycle at least every decade, and for what? Just so some suit in the C-Suite can make more money, not because it contributes to society in general, advances our civilization’s culture and/or knowledge, just for some pump and dump scheme. And the fools out there that lose it all don’t learn anything other than “I just need to exit the market sooner to make a killing “
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange 2025-05-26 12:21
@keirFox 🤘^ ^ but reaction vids can be fun if they’re just for the sheer delight of watching another human delight in watching something new to them (a.k.a. they’re one of today’s lucky 10,000) especially if they’re watching something that you already love 💕 (for me, watching opera singer / vocal coach Elizabeth Zharoff listen to bands she’s never heard before is a great example of this)
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@norbipeti@toot.norbipeti.eu 2025-06-03 12:34
@keirFox while I'm aware that these things exist I'm barely exposed to them thankfully. For YouTube I use SponsorBlock and DeArrow which gets rid of a lot of the sensationalism and ads.