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@AlexKucera it sounds nice for you! It wouldn't work for me: I'd rather eliminate toxic platforms and balance the interesting media consumption.

@jean I have soft-quit it, I just open it because for some reason some people insist on messaging me there 🙂 Thanks for the book suggestion which I'll add to my to-read list (which is immense unfortunately, and I'm reading all the time!)

@khurtwilliams i think much of your criticism are actually fair points. I think there are some super interesting ideas in this (enormous) thread generally. However I do like the no-likes and no-quick-retweets/boosts. I would like a way to "boost" that is standard across Micro.blog and as such is easily machine-readable, but I also like the currently very involved nature of "boosting" someone's post, in which you do it with the "embed" function and possibly add a comment.

I do still swear up and down for community-finding features such as an opt-in directory of users by interest. That would be so good for building community and reducing that sense of loneliness here. And it still maintains that uniqueness to this platform.

@kerim not very user friendly, isn't it, when "how to enable the sync feature" is 3 preparatory steps before even creating an account and enabling the sync

@torb it's likely that if Facebook joins the fediverse, will dominate it. I'm not very optimistic about it

@pratik it's kinda shocking how the world's "beacon of freedom" is devolving into literal fascism

@manton I also don't say AI. I think it's mostly a marketing term, overgeneralizing and confusing. I say I develop ML models.

@pratik just curious, what do the research staff do? The data analysts are not also research staff? Just a bit confused by the distinction

@pratik thanks for the article. Yep, it's really powerful. I should write something some day about some of the perception from Europe of jan 6

@vincent it absolutely is, too bad that it's not great for Python. I think Panic should take charge of the extensions for major languages instead of leaving it all to the community

@sherif @pratik @bkryer @patrickrhone @cygnoir Thanks all for the responses. Each of your replies means a lot. I’ve felt it’s hard to write or talk about social politics, morality and justice when those points you’d make are deeply essential for you. You risk putting effort in writing about things that are very close to your core, already choosing to become vulnerable, and either being ignored (which often happens on the internet: it’s obviously not an obligation on anyone’s part to care about what another internet citizen writes) – or being on the receiving end of some of the same reactions we see all too often: marginalisation, derision, justification.

Another peril for me is to radicalise myself and my opinions every time I’m exposed to extreme counterarguments. I think radicalisation is really one of the big contemporary social problems, and, as parts of what I think might appear as extreme to some, I don’t want to pour more fuel on the fire of the world’s opinions radicalisation. Just as much as - I’d rather not get mad at random internet strangers disagreeing that - e.g. - everyone should have equal rights and just protection. That not only hurts my feelings but also my ability to properly articulate my points.

About helping: well, once again, your attention and your replies already help, both me and others in making the message more visible, any message. Your sense of community, of holding hands with others, of sharing a bit of their message, is a great help. Discussing ideas is also fantastic. All discussions that are in good faith and do not contain extreme, either-black-or-white arguments, are good. All this means participation. Thank you for that. As you know, and as I’ve recently felt more and more, many of our ancestors, either close or distant, took arms for us to be able to participate. So we’re here. To end this, if you would like, I would ask back to you: how could we help for it to be easier to share matters that are close to your core?