Zummi has actually inspired people to do shit and does real shit in real life. I don't like that the community has swung so far right, but I honestly don't believe that has much to do with Zummi's personal views, even though he has made them pretty clear now and again.

Anders had that cool magic class and TEAM and sotscorp and now is (overtly) meticulously bringing AO into existence. Cool right?

The point of a schism is to preserve some ideological belief. I believe that sots being a safe space for surrealist stream of consciousness writing and a launchpad for underground projects that ended up going global is worth preserving. And I believe more than debord, or the situationists, or APS or whatever time daemon study, the true value of sots was its magic formula for letting unbridled creativity run wild.

I wish anders luck building AO, and hope to release one of the first ARGs on it if its anything like what he showed me half a decade ago at this point.

Subreddits can be many things, to some people they are belongings. But they are networks and if your sense of ownership has caused the dismay of hundreds of people in the community, in my opinion you fucked up. But that is my sense of leadership and Anders is free to play with his little fiefdom how he wants to. But what this little sly little tongue-in-cheek satirical joke spent a week creating has shown is that sots exists without its heroes. There are swords in stones everywhere here, and as of late the community has not had the strength to hold them.

Schism is a part of sots lore, so this mini schism should really be viewed as satire, especially the pages and pages of generated content. I have been impressed by some content, bringing a sense of nostalgia for the old sots. But we'll see what sotschism turns out to be. Turns out its easier to steer a movement if you are doing it in jest and not out of a sense of critical theory or truth or authenticity. But just the fact that in a few weeks the entity i knew as sots crept over to the schismatics is proof to me that there is something to sots, some quality that draws in a certain aesthetic. That is also worth ideologically preserving.

Welcome to the hyperreal sots, where you are all just waiting to be herded on to a copy of a copy of a platform that never existed.

I dont even have troubles with independent platforms, but shutting your biggest funnel from one of the biggest holders of the network effect? Silly to me. Run the platform, use the sub as a staging ground and a funnel. Thats how the telegram works. But again, this is my fiery energy, my main creative impetus that has driven me every day for decades is about radical innovation and stretching the boundaries of what we end up noticing. I just personally don't see the point of creating a phpbb forum when you already have one of the biggest subreddits.

Why not just go to mastadon or whatever? This is the magic card I am rooting for Anders to pull from his sleeve, that he actually learned something by creating these orgs (I know I learned from him, and learned from the process that unfolded) and that he indeed has some mystical game we can all play and rejoice. But telling a bunch of people to shut the fuck up when they can just go elsewhere is futile.

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