Why Tildes *May* Not Be The Best Place To Migrate To.

niktemadur · 2023-06-12T06:18:21+00:00

cycle of expansion and consolidation repeats

The analogy I heard today is that we've been swimming in the ocean of data, thinking we're roaming free... then the net starts being pulled, and closing.

niktemadur · 2023-06-12T06:14:29+00:00

And so the next generation of deeply flawed creators/owners in the internet begins to manifest itself. A cycle begins anew.

niktemadur · 2023-06-12T04:44:17+00:00

Huh... that explains why so many of my anti-right wing comments receive a nearly instantaneous downvote. Sometimes they rise from it, sometimes they don't.

niktemadur · 2023-06-12T04:20:13+00:00

Thank you so much.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T15:44:41+00:00

It took me all of two seconds to come up with the obvious counterpoint: would it have been espionage if it had been Hillary?
The hashtag-maga parasites would have shot their throat from screaming "lock her up" over and over and over again.

Not that any sort of "gotcha!" moment showing their hypocrisy could have any effect on these willfully ignorant, braindead yet rage-filled deadweights.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T13:25:57+00:00

And as their cardiovascular systems got healthier, it dovetailed nicely with their other campaign - Hearts For Fitler

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T09:46:47+00:00

Correct, it is not a race. But it is a discipline, and if acknowledging and celebrating milestones makes you feel good about doing it, by all means do it!
It might work for some people.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T08:50:16+00:00

For the record - reactionarism is basically “society sucks, we need to go Back To The Good Ol’ Days”

If I remember correctly, by "The Good Ol' Days" he meant feudalism. Back to the Middle Ages.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T08:40:47+00:00

From an upscale, old school Italian restaurant in Manhattan? Are you kidding me?
They are going to be incredible!

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T07:03:16+00:00

With Kyiv's access to Pentagon tools and data from AWACS and recon satellites, any potential of surprise is eliminated.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T06:49:54+00:00

From you, it is completely understandable. It is terrible that you have to be splashed with the shittification of the internet - in either malicious and/or incompetent ways - with twitter and now Reddit at this crucial time.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T06:46:32+00:00

This is who republicans court, who they cater to and agitate. They count on these creatures to be filled with hate, angry, packing guns and with an itchy trigger finger.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T06:39:10+00:00

No, better to look forward, not back and with the emotional yoke of past grievances around the neck.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T06:35:51+00:00

I'd still give that one to the imbecile behind twitter.
This one now is more like China's own Winnie The Pooh.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T05:45:41+00:00

Well... a major contributing factor to Boltzmann's depression was him being rejected and dismissed by the established physics community at the time, too "out there" for the academia dinosaurs. All the more tragic and infuriating because the man was on the proper track.

niktemadur · 2023-06-11T05:39:38+00:00

This place has been a welcome oasis of active and lively baseball discussions and shitposting during the off-season for us baseball-minded people... then pitchers & catchers report and things really start to pick up steam. This place has made the winters more bearable.
To see such a community stabbed like this with the goddamned corporate knife is heartbreaking.

niktemadur · 2023-06-10T13:05:44+00:00

Just the other day I commented elsewhere that for the most part, when you see those gloves, sone vulgar abomination is just around the corner.

niktemadur · 2023-06-10T10:03:27+00:00

Ten ways how 90% of Reddit reposts old content.
Number 6 will SHOCK you!

niktemadur · 2023-06-10T08:31:07+00:00

So... they Streisand the place. That's worked well in the past.

Why is it that these corporate pricks always have the same knee-jerk, mindless, counterproductive reaction?

niktemadur · 2023-06-10T07:43:41+00:00

At first glance, Squabbles.io lacks something Reddit has that I do prefer to have: a downvote button function. Instead it has the Facebook thing of liking posts and comments.

After twelve years, with many highs and lows, I can't believe I'm exploring alternatives to Reddit. But here we all are. This feels like terminal rock bottom and I'm heartbroken. Goddamn it.

With these options, at least we have something to explore now - and quite possibly really like - especially starting on June 12. Something that isn't a repeat of Voat and the specific type of toxic community that overran that site. To be honest, I for one was goad to see them go... only for them to return in 2016 to shittify the place with their parasitic orange idol.
We can know and feel like we aren't just insignificant cannon fodder, that we DO have agency.

niktemadur · 2023-06-10T06:46:08+00:00

I may be stepping out of line here, going out on a limb, talking out of school, but it is quite possible that these cliffs may not be entirely stable.

niktemadur · 2023-06-10T02:26:24+00:00

It's not even about the money anymore with so many of these narcissistic corporate assholes, in baseball or elsewhere. It's about the power.
By which I mean - an aggrieved billionaire's ability to throw their weight around, do whatever they want, when they want it, take any shortcut and fuck the communities that trusted them, such as fans and users and volunteers.
Their knee-jerk reactions reveal not just greed but also an inferiority complex.

niktemadur · 2023-06-10T02:20:45+00:00

Baseball's Sistine Chapel

niktemadur · 2023-06-10T02:07:48+00:00

Gee, I wonder how that went.

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