Arcanoloth

@Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your social media path?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Usenet (and still there), mailing lists (hooray for any that use schleuder), a bit of IRC (though I was never one for quick fire & forget statements, today I’m good with Signal/Molly/Gurk and XMPP; Matrix never appealed to me), lot’s of Forums (mostly related to my favourite games at the times), some twitter (though I was never really comfortable with the hustle to gain more visibility through large follower numbers), switched over to identi.ca (and eventually many different ActivityPub servers, currently one Akkoma and one Lemmy; not interested in PixelFed, though it helps I dislike the dev’s attitude; PeerTube could be interesting as a consumer, but the UX still feels atrocious; I tend to leave my name/handle behind when switching, I’ll inform some people important to me, but I am quite happy not having to maintain friendships and a reputation, gotta do that in meatspace, and I find it taxing even there). Lurked 4chan a couple years, but was never comfortable engaging, too much “fake” being a horrible person. Was relatively active on reddit, but ever since the redesign I felt it was too cumbersome to use (yes, old., I know, but who wants to rely on a legacy version being available?), plus their corporate decisions were pissing me off more and more (Yeah, I’m a pretty stout software freedom person, down to using libreboot & canoeboot, though I no longer wish to associate myself with the FSF, given their tone-deaf handling of the whole RMS situation), so, yeah, eventually lemmy. I’m more quiet than I used to be, getting older, I suppose, but I was also never that into anything “social” in the first place (I’m an Aspie, who’d have thunk?), so I mostly lurk and only post when I feel I can actually contribute something meaningful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad you like it :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK Just the way it turned out (and then was applied to more and more things). Others write top to bottom or even left to right on odd lines and right to left on even ones (boustrophedon, “as the ox plows”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the commercial side, it’s the curse of the pareto principle and the “good enough” approach that is the rational consequence of money-maximizing strategies.

  For volunteer/free software/etc. it’s both people being used to working in commercial settings on the one hand, and being ok with scratching one’s own itches first and foremost on the other.