Sorry I didn’t mean to cause any offense but maybe I can clarify too. The people I’m referring to are what’s referred to often as “terminally online.” They could be doing anything with themselves and their lives, but instead they’re choosing to deep-dive on anonymous message board posters they disagree with, so they can tear them apart or call them out for some post made years ago, or an assumed affiliation or belief, that kind of thing.

It’s a choice to be vindictive and petty to people.

Like, yeah you’re right, sometimes looking at post histories and such can be helpful to unmask a bot net or a troll riling up a community, but I’m referring to people doing it just to be obsessively petty and vindictive to strangers.

But okay, in good faith I’ll add “decide they have nothing better to do” to emphasize one’s free will, because the joke is that anybody could be doing better than trying to dig up personal beef on each other over message boards when nothing is at stake lol.

This. One thing I couldn’t stand about Reddit was seeing people who could be doing anything else with their lives, but decided it worthwhile to “background check” other posters.

This was a big thing with Twitter too. “Oh, they follow such-and-such in their list of 10,000 follows, who turned out to be bad in recent news, so this person’s views are worthless and they must also be bad!”

Like, being able to have a quick glance and be like “Ah this is clearly a bot / hate-troll / what-haves”, can be handy for some sense of accountability, but purity-testing and association-mobs are the stuff of cautionary science fiction, and should be avoided.

Also “move objects on”

Just gonna delete these bills here… Hey why not the whole mailbox?

I also once had a sim make enough garden gnomes to fill every single tile of the street… Then he kicked one. 😂

It depends on the notes, for me:

I’ve had an oddly long-running obsession with Tiddlywiki!

It has a bit of a learning curve, but it’s VERY flexible. My favorite part being that by default it’s just a single, portable, HTML file. No special app required besides a browser, no accounts, and you can just sync it like any other file. (Syncthing, Nextcloud, and friends)

There’s also an app called Tiddloid for Android to make managing and saving a little easier, but they open in any browser.

I have a Tiddlywiki that I use like one might use Obsidian, where I just stash stuff I’ll want to remember and maybe link between similar ideas.

And then I’m currently trying to use it to make a solution to sketch out my Savage Worlds RPG campaigns. It gets a little tricky but you can make templates, script buttons, and that kind of thing. If you’re already comfortable with web stuff you’ll probably catch on WAY better than I have.

You can also host it as a website, or on your server or whatever, to use it like any other wiki. There’s also plugins to use Markdown instead of “wikitext.”

There’s also an excellent guide to learning it at https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/ . It’s basically an online workbook using Tiddlywiki itself!

The community is also super helpful. I do wish it had a little more out of the box, but something about a customizable, portable, digital “notebook” that doesn’t require an account or hopefully-supported-in-5-years application is SUPER appealing to me. It’s quite underrated.

Also just for fun I wanted to share my favorite example someone’s been working on for quite some time now, a heavily customized D&D wiki

https://intrinsical.github.io/wiki/index.html

Tiddlywiki can be a bit dense and the documentation is slowly improving, but there’s so much potential!

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Ohhh I see what you did there. They’re all extensions. So 98% of users doesn’t even know it’s a possibility if it’s not default lol.

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Lol exactly! I’m sure there’s gotta be some studies on this, with the prevalence of review-less written words all over the internet, and a lot of users interacting with it at a young age, or being newer to English, I’m sure there’s plenty of instances where they see it done wrong and just go “Hey that must be how it works!”

And it just spreads from there. But c’mon, this wouldn’t be so bad with a basic foundation in phonetics, folks! :(

I only wish:

1. More people knew how to correct it without being mean.
2. There wasn’t such a weird defensiveness against accepting such correction and learning something.

I actually kinda appreciated the reddit bots that did this. They weren’t wrong and only the severest of simpletons goes ape on an automated script lol.

Maybe for the Discord use-case of joining mass-community servers it simply doesn’t have the network-effect yet. I haven’t used it much myself sadly! But I imagine a lot of users had the same idea you did: “Let’s make a server! Aw nobody’s here.”

But I think adoption would grow if we started using it for what a LOT of people use Discord for currently: The micro-server for get-togethers of smaller social circles.

• Voice chat for videogames
• Small digital meet-ups, like artists, churches, clubs, etc.
• Distance-playing tabletop RPGs.
• College study groups.

That’s where adoption starts and snowballs. Unfortunately, I believe the VC-funded data-mining corpo-apps will always have the advantage in scooping up the “I want to join a crowded mass community room” users.

But that’s okay for a start.

The way I see it, we need to be most concerned with keeping our security and privacy amongst our closest associates, and occasionally we’ll need to venture out into the “commercial-net” with our hoodies up and sunglasses on to interact with the crowd, fully aware there’s surveillance everywhere.

That’s a super neat trick actually. Why the heck has RSS been losing popularity when it seems to be the only protocol you really need to keep up with what you actually care about?

Oh I just answered my own question: It must be harder to hijack RSS with intrusive ads and clickbait…

I still don’t think I understand the full utility of RSS. I guess it’s good for forum communication too?

Because my first thought was “RSS is cool but first we need human-written content and blogs to come back.”

Zulip sounds neat!

Shoutout to https://revolt.chat/ as a Discord alternative too.

Ah, that captures such a stark answer to why people use xitter though.

It’s not “so I can hear from you” it’s “So YoU cAn HeAr FrOm Us!!!11oneone”

Walled gardens? More like prison yard. Lol

So weird, I just heard this phrase in its entirety from Dr. Smith, of the classic Lost in Space series.

It’s such a goofy show but the dialogue can be shockingly eloquent.

“Proof is in the pudding” always got to me too… Thought it was some old weird Baker-farmer-ism or something Lol.

Ah! I’ll read this over dinner.

Bone apple tea! :p

Wh… What are you doing, step-toe?

“Let’s flush out this design.”

“You got it!” [Slowly readies a grenade.]

Reminds me of that story where a fellow on the lake was chilly and tried to start a small fire in the boat, but it just burned a hole through it and he had to swim to shore.

Just goes to show you…

“You can’t have your kayak and heat it, too.”

I’ve seen this too! It baffles me!

It’s like, “Hey if your sentence contains ‘a women’, or ‘one women’, you’ve got a subject-number agreement error.” Lol

We’re at a point in the information age where even the poor, for now, tend to have access to libraries and smartphones even if the school system failed them. I’ve known many with advanced vocabulary and disproportionate economic status. Heck, I’m not rich either but I know words and letters mean things if we’re to communicate well.

Many poor immigrants will say “sorry for my English” but be significantly more eloquent than the majority of privileged kids on Reddit or whatever. The difference? They care about being understood clearly.

There’s a certain irritation when it comes to people on the Internet who have the world at their fingertips and misuse language out of lazy habit, and continue to do so, even when gently and non-judgingly corrected.

This seems to happen often enough that misspellings or misuse seem to mislead people new to the concept or language, into an incorrect understanding in the first place.

It’s a silly discussion on willful, stubborn ignorance and how that’s a pet peeve. Nothing to get too bent out of shape over.

Yep. This is the one. It irks the heck out of me when people are saying something to the effect of “I had a bad experience once, now I’m tired and fatigued about this situation in the future.”

Or “I would be worn out, like after a long hike or something, about things that sound too good to be true, folks! Be careful!”

Agghhh! Lol. I get English can be awfully confusing sometimes but I’ve been seeing this one pop up a LOT more recently.

(Dis)honors also go to “loosing my keys” or “being a stealthy rouge”