Collection of articles about communities. Some are stubs.
clearly google search and discord doesn't work for me because they are TOO dedicated to craft. almost like they were made around the craft itself, which is why when i figure that craft is not interesting i just kinda see the hollowness of this community
i just wanna talk i wanna share and be happy and be sad with the person. not a hollow thing that only spats outs dirty jokes because they're scared to be genuine or something (like i usually do)
and then i find a person who i'd really like to be with and imposter syndrome kicks in and kills all the potential
at this point am mostly mad at myself for being feeling so unfit and having parasocial friendships online instead (frankly this is still better than nothing)
but when someone finds 'em.... Oh, hey, you found it! My door, precious door... I would gladly tell ya everything i know, my personal life, secrets... just try to be my friend if you want to :D Discord: @.helvetica. (just tell me you're coming from a website 'cuz i may confuse you for a spammer)
I will explain or elaborate more later because i don't even know what things i'd really want to expand upon
I don't use internet only for communicating people. Also i'd rather use some SMS or IRC service but most people use Telegram or Discord. Which is why i use them most and i don't want to switch to matrix or stoat or some shit.
"Why though?" Do i like data being massively stolen? Do i dislike decentralisation?" Abdolutely not.
it's what i like
Doesn't mean they will stay huge. I already see former Twitter users dividing and moving on to Bluesky or Blacksky. Some people choose X (it's not Twitter anymore since Elon bought 'em and made it second main conservative hub). I see Mastodon-derived platforms. Forums kind of becoming popular again.
Here i'm specifically thinking about Reddit, Discord and Telegram. Because they found balance between letting communinties divide and they are acting more like social circles (some still come with AI overseer figuring out what things do you want to see). YouTube is here to stay because it's too big to fail. You and their algo decide together which social circles you belong to. Even Neocities frankly is a centralised platform. Anywho, you might even still depend on centralised platforms like HOSTING websites, or GITHUB, or GITLAB.
Because people use these words to not care about a social circle. "Nah, it's another Fandom". "Oh, this fandom is so ASS". "I hate ". "I hate AI bros".