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0 pointsnebula88042y ago0 comments

Agreed. There is still gold there but now you have to dig through a mound of excrement to get to it. The less time I spend there the better. I just quick link to my favorite people, read their updates and then get off. I'm missing out on a lot of additional good stuff but I am tired of digging through cruft to see it.

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sixothree2y ago· 2 in thread

And that's the worst part about it. Twitter required an investment to make it a great place to be. And I had spent time curating who I was following and such to the point where Twitter was a good place for me to be.

I spend a lot of time collecting vintage computers and am interested in programming and technology in general. And I was really enjoying the time I spent there maybe an hour or three per week.

But I rarely ever log in any more. The stupid belligerent idiots have really taken over the place. Though I guess that can describe more than just twitter any more.

nebula8804OP2y ago

Ha! Are you me? Because I also collect and restore vintage computers (almost to the point of hoarding). As i'm typing this, my NABU computer just arrived today ha ha.

>But I rarely ever log in any more. The stupid belligerent idiots have really taken over the place. Though I guess that can describe more than just twitter any more.

Too true. I wonder what the end state will end up being, both on Twitter and in society in general. Where do you think we are going?

I have this nagging feeling that in some ways they are not as large of a group as they want people to think. I saw the results of the midterms and how the worst of the worst just got utterly destroyed at the polls and it made me think that the greater society is rational and is looking for solution to real life problems and not this nonsense we see in life and on Twitter. I guess 2024's US election will be a real test.

sixothree2y ago

lol. It was a struggle to _not_ buy a Nabu.

I have commodores, TRS-80s, Apples, Macs, SparcStations, IBMs and more (so many more). But moreso, I have drive emulators and modern display adapters for so many of them.

I just picked up an IMSAI 8080 with the self-promise to stop collecting for a year. There is one more item, that if it even appears on ebay I will snag it. But I'm full up.

> Where do you think we are going? My biggest fear is the post-trust world. With AI taking over, people will no longer be able to trust anything they see. And we saw with Jan6 what happens when malleable people lose trust in institutions. I think that's the reality we're going to end up with.

And yeah, they are a minority. But they are a dangerous minority. And it's no longer just America we need to worry about.

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