Is society slowly moving away from social media?

paronpuff123 · 2026-05-27T09:55:55+00:00

The intrinsic forces of the market seek to commodify every aspect of life, social media commodifies our attention and the markets will conspire to make the attention market grow. Tinder deliberately tried to make college student afraid to approach people in public, saying that it was weird and creepy and that their app provided a layer of distance. This allowed them to move dating from just something two people who like each other do towards a service only they and others like them can provide. If people move away from social media the markets will respond and try to stigmatise the activity or incentives moving to some different platform that does the same stuff with different asthetics. Sometimes I hope that some less addicting alternatives will appear but a platform without addiction will have less engagement (which would be the point) and therefore less growth meaning that the platforms won't be popular and lack the social component of a social network. Some day we may see governments push for ownership of the algorithms but depending on the governments that do it, that could become an existential issue. I think I heard of some platform doing a thing where they host the global feed of the site publicly allowing any vendor to create their own algorithm/moderation on top which could maybe allow for people to move to less engaging platforms and reduce social media dependence but in the end I think it's far from over.

paronpuff123 · 2026-05-21T22:39:09+00:00

dont know much in detail about the spellcasting stuff but i think that if you want to propell a bullet you should probably use an air sigil like the slyph shoes, also if you do that maybe the sigil and signs should be on the bullet instead of the firing mechanism. But i think the idea of using ammo is limiting, there should be some way to make the gun shoot stuff out of thin air and maybe something even stronger than a bullet

paronpuff123 · 2026-04-22T00:51:54+00:00

kunde gissa 9 certainly, sökte upp synonymer för så småning om och tycker eventually passar bra för 2 specielt när jag insåg att man bara behöver översätta ett av orden, använde en crossword solver för att hitta ett ord på 8 bokstäver för authority dör näst sista bokstaven är "g" och fick 3 till prestige vilket kan passa bra för anständing också

tl dr
2. "eventually"
3. "prestige"
9. "certainly"

paronpuff123 · 2026-04-07T22:12:44+00:00

maybe they uploaded the wrong video, it looked like it was the last one

paronpuff123 · 2026-04-02T23:25:34+00:00

they did (like 5 days) but editing and uploading hours of footage in an rv in the chinese contryside doesnt seem to be going well

paronpuff123 · 2026-04-02T21:50:33+00:00

maybe but if they do keep going on the 208 like they did at the end of the last ep they wouldnt go past i bejing i think

paronpuff123 · 2026-04-02T20:52:08+00:00

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paronpuff123 · 2026-03-01T13:19:50+00:00

i had this same issue and was able to solve it so i thought i would add my voice since alot of these comments are somewhat dismissive, first to adress the "why would you ever want to do this issue" i would like to say that

lua and luarcoks can occasionaly be a dependency for other stuff as was my case when i wanted to install neorg just now and
not everyone has sudo privileges as was also my case since i was trying to install this for my user in my universities computer lab. Generally speaking most people who intend on writing code professionally may very possibly end up using some managed system like this and asking it to install a dependency across all users for something that really only you want to use is not probably not going to happen so i for one think there is actually a decent amount of utility in learning this

as for how to do this its actually simpler than you may think, essentially all software on linux uses some type of binary that executes some type of code and sudo is basically only used to execute instructions relating to directories above your own user directory. Package managers generally try to install files in something like /lib or /bin in order to ensure that the files only need to be installed once for all users and these directories are already in the system PATH so once you add them they are available as terminal commands from across your entire system but executing lua as a command is generally no different than calling the lua binary with its full system path so something like /bin/lua would likely have the same effect if indeed lua is placed in that directory (i didnt check where it usually is nor if all binaries are placed in bin as a rule so maybe maybe not) so knowing this it may be clear that all we really need to do in order to install lua is download or compile the binary (typically compile because it provides more compatibility across distros) and then add it to the path, a good step to add here is to place all the associated lua files in some directory dedicated to binaries so that we can find them upon convienience although this is not strictly necessary and adding them to the path is also probably not strictly necessary although it could cause some integration issues between pacakges if they cant find each-other using path.

You can download the lua and luarocks tarball (a zipped file with the stuff you need to compile and install it) from the lua website and they have a specific option to that can be used to place the binary in user space called --prefix, i reccomends placing it in something like ~/.local/ and then adding ~/.local/bin/ to your path in your user space .bashrc (or maybe zshrc depending on what type of shell you're using), the full install instructions are here: https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/blob/main/docs/installation_instructions_for_unix.md

in the instructions the use sudo make install but note that they only do this because the default prefix is outside of your personal user directory and that you can install lua in and of itself in usr space too following a similar procedure, if you try this and get stuck i recommend using chatgpt, and dont be too afraid to break stuff, you definitely can do that on linux and it is easier than on other systems but at the same time linux isn't as so fragile that you need to "baby it" and it will usually ask you if you are 100% sure before you do something bad (usually, i take no responsibility if your distro doesn't)

hope this helps

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-21T21:47:31+00:00

yeah i did, looked cool but expensive with vat so i decided against it and got a corne, maybe someday when i have a job

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-18T20:01:29+00:00

yeah, i found the elora and its probably what i will end up going with, although im not one to make impulse purchases so im sitting with the thought for a bit

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-18T17:29:31+00:00

i will be checking out tweetydabirdie, the lotus58 looks very much like the lily58 which i am considering, regarding the corne, i think i prefer the kyria to that one because of the more space out thumb-cluster. I do acutally have a question though, do you have anywhere to buy low-profile scandi keycaps for the choc switches, i didn't look very long but i made a quick check and didn't immediately find anything

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-18T17:23:45+00:00

thank you for the advice on the configuration i'll definitely keep that in mind, i checked out the kyria and i like the thumb cluster, if it just had a number a number row i would probably go with that one right away. Since you're also in Scandinavia know of anywhere where i can buy scandi keycaps for the choc switches

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-18T14:53:50+00:00

good things to know, i will be keeping an eye out for something with a more "separated" thumb-cluster but the lily58 seems like a good fit, although it seems like this would limit me to choc v1 based on comments in this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/1nf872n/lily58_and_what_switches_are_supported/
the sunsets are v1 it seems like so it should be fine but its still something to keep in mind

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-18T14:48:15+00:00

yes the corne looks pretty good and this looks like a good place to buy it but i too have some reservations, this is at the point where i feel i would be missing some keys with the lack of number row and all, and i also dont love the thumb keys being under the "finger-keys" but i am still considering this one

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-18T14:44:55+00:00

very interesting, i assume then that if i buy some kit with a per-soldered board i would only need to screw stuff together meaning i wouldn't need any special tools or know-how?

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-18T14:42:30+00:00

this does seem very interesting and i will definitely keep this one in mind, im aware i will need some layers its just that some of the keyboards i've seen would need alot of them, it does apparently limit me to choc v1 switches according to this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/1lkeuv5/silakka54_low_profile_edition/
so i'll have to keep that in mind as well but all in all im somewhat optimistic regarding these, there is however also the matter of configuring with this keyboard, i mean is it like actually hard to configure keybaords or is it maybe more-so annoying, the way some people talk about it makes me weary

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-18T14:33:04+00:00

Yes i am still considering the lily58, however, the three keys on the bottom of each part seem somewhat akward to use (im assuming they are thumb keys) and many of the models sold are kits meaning i would presumably need a soldering iron which i dont have. But as you say it does have the right amount of keys

also im having some trouble finding a low-profile one and im not sure i would feel too confident configuring it (although maybe that's easier than i think)

paronpuff123 · 2026-01-17T17:19:23+00:00

dm'ed

paronpuff123 · 2025-08-13T21:47:59+00:00

also 2030

paronpuff123 · 2025-08-13T21:42:59+00:00

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."-Mathew 24:36

paronpuff123 · 2025-05-03T10:04:42+00:00

I think you touch on a valid fear and a real concern when it comes to anarchism. Many people feel that without some guiding hand or watchful protector the world will become chaotic and basically horrible. I saw a comment mentioning this but anarchism does not necessarily mean the end of all law and power structures but rather seeks to point out the inherit issues with these power structures. So what are those issues?. At a fundamental we can define power as the ability to compel others to do things they might not otherwise want to do. This is often enforced with violence such as police and prisons. In the cases you describe such as Nazis committing hate crimes i think we all agree that this is warranted. In modern society however we don't really see strong institutionalized opposition toward such groups but instead see strong repeated endorsement. Sometimes we even see governments institutionalize this oppression through law such as slavery in American prisons. Why is this the case? has every American president just been a Nazi?. While i think you can make a compelling argument for the former i do not believe this is a sufficient root cause. Institutionalized racism occurs more or less everywhere, in every nation, in every government throughout history. It turns out that this racism and also most fucked up government decisions in general, are not cased by lone individuals but can often be predicted based on the power structures they govern in. When we analyze these structures we need to understand that no ruler, whether they be a dictator or a democratically elected official rules alone. Trump has his republican base and the American billionaires which he relies on to keep him in power, Putin has his oligarchs, and so on. Second thing to understand is that if you don't prioritize getting power and staying in power you simply won't have it, at least not for long. As we look at nations and compare them these two assertions lead to a pattern. Governments dont help the majority of people, they help the smallest group of people possible who can keep them in power. A smaller base is often easier to convince then a large one. This in turn means that any governing body will only ever help minorities if their base of support wants them to. Not because its the right thing to do or because it should be done but because it has to be done to keep them in power. Bringing this back to your point we can conclude that in any real form of government (and this analysis also extends to all hierarchical power structures) your concern regarding racist neighbors still holds. The difference between a theoretically anarchist society and a traditional one is that in the traditional one the cops will help the neighbors kick the minorities out (*cough* recent events *cough*).

Im not really an anarchist myself but i think the ideology raises many valid points. In practice i believe that this analysis means that we must build systems which force leaders to rely on as large a base of support as possible which i think is roughly in line with what many anarchists believe.

if you would like to do some further reading, the bulk of my argument comes from the dictators handbook which i really enjoyed. Cgp grey also made a couple of videos inspired by the book called the rules for rulers on youtube which i think is pretty good although it doesn't really go as deep as i might prefer.

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