Post #1962496
2025-05-23 19:20 UTC
Replies (6)
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@catraxx@tech.lgbt 2025-05-23 19:25
@keirFox Yeah, i feel the same tbh.
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@gettie@fedi.catto.garden 2025-05-23 19:52
@keirFox in my opinion, the best thing you can do is to try building it yourself, if you can. :neocat_floof__w_:
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@trisweb@m.trisweb.com 2025-05-24 13:39
@keirFox the identification of all of this being a desperate attempt to find and participate in community is spot on. Maybe mixed with the desperate attempt to survive in a capitalist hellscape that makes it this particular shape. Maybe people need more examples of what real community looks and feels like. More good role models in large form. I don’t even think the fediverse is that thing, it’s just a free and distributed version of the existing type of online. I don’t know.
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@c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza 2025-05-24 20:44
@keirFox "The revolution will not be televised." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
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@unlofl@mstdn.social 2025-05-25 06:30
@keirFox I have fantasized about living in a small town or commune of burned out/escaped techies. We'd have a great intranet with useful tools that serve actual human needs, at our fingertips from any public or private terminal, and just block everything else. The only distractions would be silly shit your neighbors are up to. The only legal form of advertising would be a sign on the front of your shop.
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@gregly@retro.pizza 2025-05-25 13:58
@keirFox I was just recently thinking about the “death of local”. Main Street mostly died before I was born, but even since then we’ve seen the vast decline of third places, of local newspapers and television, of true connection. Churches have traditionally served this function for the religious, but as societies have become more secular (a good thing, mind you) there hasn’t been much to take their place. (One might argue this is intentional; churches do not want competition.)