Today marks 5 years since I last went into an office for work.
I left early that day (a Wednesday) because I had some kind of stomach bug and vomited. It was a $50 Lyft ride from Brickell, in Miami to the then BB&T commuter parking lot in far west Sunrise just past Sawgrass Mills.
The office officially closed that Friday, and I retired in September 2021.
For me, time has warped into having no meaning and today is simply March, 1837, 2020.
@BeAware I haven't had (almost) any such issues with #fediseer, but my primary audience has been #lemmy and the #threadiverse instead of microblogging. There's surprisingly different norms that have been organically reached in mastodon over the past decade which are fairly alien outside it.
It honestly feels more like a small group of people trying to futilely hold back the Eternal September through scolding and pile-ons.
they don't want "the normies"
they fear an #eternalseptember
thing is, since this is federation, anyone worried about that can keep their niche communities separate and never encounter "the normies"
and, like erin said, we want "the normies" here
otherwise they get mindwiped by plutocrat agendas on centralized #socialmedia
to do that we have to make the process of getting into the #fediverse dead simple
dead. simple.
even picking a server is a step too high for many
@Khrys Mastodon le réseau social qui se prépare à un #eternalseptember bis ?
yeah
if we ever want #mastodon #fediverse to grow, it has to be dead simple
dead. simple.
"i don't want all these normies on mastodon"
you kind of do
otherwise they are off in #twitter land or #rednote land or #facebook land getting mindwiped, and then voting
you can curate your mastodon experience to your hearts content, and avoid them all
don't worry about #eternalseptember on mastodon
worry about #plutocrat agendas controlling hordes of zombies
After a couple of years’ participation in the #fediverse, I’ve realized I can’t maintain my usual sincere and open attitude to enjoy my exchanges here.
Instead, I’ve reverted to the troll-blocking mindset I developed on #IRC in the 1990s. The #EternalSeptember that started there continues to produce edgelords here.
They’re just attention and audience thieves, not worth the energy for anything more than indifferently blocking them on first contact.
I kinda think #EternalSeptember is as made-up as Stockholm syndrome (e.g., they couldn't understand how hostages could be sympathetic to captors)
nerds can't imagine becoming the grumpy conservative mad about immigrants to their new thing. yet they become extra pissed when people turn a new leaf on DND.
OH: "the fediverse is so conservative and hostile to change"
yup, that about summarizes it.
constantly worried about #eternalseptember (spoiler, at colleges you're SUPPOSED to get new users, be nice damnit)
not listening to new users' UX, safety, and usability concerns, (which leads to frustration, "why not just use a TTY? it's only a little speed bump")
thinking that their community server's standards of interaction extend to /other people's business on other instances/ as if it was an HOA,
“I hope Macedon and the feta verse never lose that.”
The #EternalSeptember ethos of Macedon is reminiscent of pre-IPO Twitter.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
@demiguise If you can distinguish #AI output from the assertions of #WebDev “beginner experts,” you’re a better person than me
@risottobias It was every September indeed. But #EternalSeptember referred to the opening of the floodgates with the advent of the World Wide Web.
In hindsight, #EternalSeptember was probably where it all went wrong.
@miss_rodent the main thing to avoid is the advert model v.v
and we could've avoided #EternalSeptember...
@thomasfuchs #EternalSeptember came for #journalism just like it came for everything else
@natpryce @jasongorman So the one thing #AI code generation accelerates is #EternalSeptember
I remember the morning when #AOL #EternalSeptember happened.
