Post #4476100
2026-08-08 21:57 UTC
RE: https://mastodon.social/@limebar/117060315235037705
I absolutely endorse this sentiment but I would be remiss if I did not observe that solidarity is, in addition to a general attitude, also a bunch of excruciatingly tedious *work*.
You’ve gotta give up on your own priorities to make someone else’s more important. You’ve gotta figure out WHICH person you are going to do that for. You’ve gotta reach out, they’ve gotta respond, you’ve gotta hammer out a revshare agreement, you have to schedule a biweekly call to sync up on deliverables.
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 03:41
A little clarification here: I'm not saying that solidarity is not *worth it*. Obviously, you _gotta_ do it. It's arguably the whole point. What I was trying to say here is that when you say to someone who is considering using some AI to avoid this type of community building, expressing exasperation is insufficient. "Why don't you just experience some genuine human connection?" is the "let them eat cake" of the loneliness crisis. "Use ChatGPT" is still "let them eat diarrhea lettuce" though