The Tragedy of Gemini
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The Tragedy of Gemini
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#2digital frontiers fold ever inward. gemini is a little secret nook carved out behind the clubhouse in the corner of a hidden cul-de-sac of a massive global labyrinth. there's no wall, it's just hard to find unless you know the way. there's no tragedy, it's just not everybody chooses to walk the paths you chose to walk.
we're all running away from everyone forever. it's okay. that's the point. when we get out here we find the people like us.
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#3digital frontiers fold ever inward. gemini is a little secret nook carved out behind the clubhouse in the corner of a hidden cul-de-sac of a massive global labyrinth. there's no wall, it's just hard to find unless you know the way. there's no tragedy, it's just not everybody chooses to walk the paths you chose to walk. we're all running away from everyone forever. it's okay. that's the point. when we get out here we…
Do you only want to hear from people like you? To only make your community with people like you?
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#4In that sense, being accustomed to cli and able to use gemini is no different than community of people who plays Go, Shogi or fan of Liverpool football team pre 2000. I’m not entirely sure being not too popular is a reason to be sad — not everyone needs to be Real Madrid fan
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#5digital frontiers fold ever inward. gemini is a little secret nook carved out behind the clubhouse in the corner of a hidden cul-de-sac of a massive global labyrinth. there's no wall, it's just hard to find unless you know the way. there's no tragedy, it's just not everybody chooses to walk the paths you chose to walk. we're all running away from everyone forever. it's okay. that's the point. when we get out here we…
Do you only want to hear from people like you? To only make your community with people like you?
A lot of time, yes. If I’m looking for movies recommendation, I would try to find people who are most similar to me.
Also, no one is using Gemini exclusively, the web still exists
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#6digital frontiers fold ever inward. gemini is a little secret nook carved out behind the clubhouse in the corner of a hidden cul-de-sac of a massive global labyrinth. there's no wall, it's just hard to find unless you know the way. there's no tragedy, it's just not everybody chooses to walk the paths you chose to walk. we're all running away from everyone forever. it's okay. that's the point. when we get out here we…
Do you only want to hear from people like you? To only make your community with people like you?
> from people like you
What constitutes someone like me?
I absolutely mostly want to hear from people with similar attributes to me, similar fundamental guiding principles about what makes someone good or bad, and so on, but I'd also like to hear from people with very different experiences to me. I don't think these are especially incompatible ideas
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#7This isn't really related but I think it's interesting that the comments on the site are Mastodon toots.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you only want to hear from people like you? To only make your community with people like you?
> from people like you What constitutes someone like me? I absolutely mostly want to hear from people with similar attributes to me, similar fundamental guiding principles about what makes someone good or bad, and so on, but I'd also like to hear from people with very different experiences to me. I don't think these are especially incompatible ideas
Well, in this case, "someone like me" is enforced by technical abstruseness as meaning someone who knows their way around a shell prompt. That's value-neutral in of itself, but you can see how it ends up selecting for certain views on the world
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#9In that sense, being accustomed to cli and able to use gemini is no different than community of people who plays Go, Shogi or fan of Liverpool football team pre 2000. I’m not entirely sure being not too popular is a reason to be sad — not everyone needs to be Real Madrid fan
A boomer would find your comment curious. Before Manchester United struck gold with the Class of ‘92, Liverpool were the automatic favorites every year and dominated the English league for more than a decade, accumulating plenty of glory-hunter supporters. Obviously they shrunk in the Premier League era after a series of bad years, but they’ve always had one of the largest and most insufferable fanbases.
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#10Exclusivity and elitism get a bad rap. The most important ingredient for a high-quality community is high-quality people, and to keep out the lower-quality people you need to have barriers to entry. I suspect that most Gemini users are smart enough to realise that, whether they'd admit it or not.