sicklemode [they/them]
What in the world are you on about? You can’t have the late 90s and early 2000s internet experience back, if that’s what you’re after. The material and social conditions no-longer exist for it.
Everything is politics, and you will not escape from it. Ever.
That being said, it’s better to understand why you actually are upset than to just come on here and lash out at things that aren’t even an issue.
Edit: Was this a bit? I must’ve fallen for it, if so
Hexbear is the last fun place on the internet
I dunno what we are in now but the old web was better. 1.0 sucked. 2.0 was good though. You had all these nich communities bubbling with energy and ideas. Now it is just reddit and psyops and comodification.
Hexbears should help expand our creativity on the web, by taking inspiration from NeoCities (successor to GeoCities). Not everything has to be sterile and bland and boring. I’d even like to be able to customize our profile pages more than just things like the banner and profile picture. I mean, just look at how much life can be breathed into a site with so much flexibility. Look at all the colors and non-standard layouts. What the web as lost is personality, which we should be taking back. We’re on FOSS sites here in the Fediverse. We can do better, and we shouldn’t be too afraid to take risks by deviating from what’s accepted as “normal” these days.
We had way better tools for self-expression on older formats like early YouTube, MySpace, etc etc. We don’t have to stay the course of sterile, standardized, corporatized web formats.
The original point of using the web was making things beautiful and tinkering around with different designs. It was to tell a story with the layout. That was part of the content itself, not just what we say and do online.
Edit: https://yesterweb.org/ (on NeoCities) has plenty of good and interesting information on this general topic of a worse present web (a manifesto, if you will)
Sex work is spawned out of desperation and lack of dignified opportunities that are reasonable to pursue.
It’s not unrealistic to “Believing you can just get rid of the oldest profession in the world” because we’ve already had massive progress doing this in places like China.
Women would rather pursue careers in the STEM field and have dignified careers engaging in national development while also being homeowners and having disposable income that builds.
We can get rid of sex work by eliminating the conditions of poverty driven by capitalism, which, like small time crime, demand will fall in proportion to rising living standards.
Get real here.
The lore continues
The chud bible:
- Horseshoe theory
- Double genocide theory
- The black book of communism
- Whataboutism
Beyond predictable. This is simply protectionism designed to artificially stifle competition since the US and EU cannot compete.
Not only that, they will fight to the death before they let anyone benefit from Chinese liberation from the oppressive tyranny of Western companies.
Expect to see this with phones, CPUs and GPUs and virtually every other relevant breakthrough technologies coming out of China that have the potential to somewhat alleviate the struggle of poverty.
As always, it’s just class war playing itself out. They will always try and cancel the future.
This is hardly a surprise. When you adopt an anti-communist stance, you pave the way for unhealthy social trends to takeover, which increases the moderation workload considerably, and forces you into an unsustainable method of operating. Perhaps the decay has finally reached a stage advanced enough to send them back to the likes of Silicon Valley centralized models.
Hexbear has survived all this time because, like China, has been engaging in self-reform to address the problem of rise and fall. So long as Hexbear continues this path, it will continue to go the distance.
The other big instances that are here today may not be in a few months, or years. Fascinating to see from a dialectical perspective.
Thanks for all the free advertising.
