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Re: Ego Death

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Post by Wolfenstein98k »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #47
bastawhiz wrote: post #2

I find it so irritating and difficult to read when authors needlessly make most of their paragraphs a single sentence. Or use lots of tiny sentences that read like fragments. I guess it's to add effect? Except it doesn't read like it's profound, it's just annoying. Please stop doing this and just write like you talk. Unless that's also how you talk, in which case please just don't do that.

It’s a device used for conveying dramatic feelings in storytelling. You’d never use it in formal communication or technical documents, but there’s no reason to get worked up about it either.

There is a reason - it's tiresome. It reeks to me (personally) of someone who is really really high on their own supply, and if they were speaking it aloud they'd be using a condescending newsreader voice.

Just my $0.02

Re: Ego Death

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Post by dcastm »

> This blog, and the RSS feed will slowly grow into read-only automation that will publish to all of my channels.

WUPHF?

Re: Ego Death

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Post by exodust »

Ego death with a side of "stay tuned for more blog posts and Twitch streams".

> doom and horror

I don't think lumping everyone into this bleak conclusion is fair or accurate. Perhaps it's a method to excuse yourself from your own use of social media: the "system" is to blame, and everyone else is just as bad?

> "Everyone wants to slow to gawk at the carnage – nobody wants to stop and lend a hand."

Not true. Some would lend a hand if they thought they wouldn't get in the way. Some slow down to assess the situation to determine whether they could help. Not everyone is an unhelpful gawker.

Re: Ego Death

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Post by verisimi »

Wolfenstein98k wrote: post #68

I don't know how to say this constructively, but this post reads like it is written with a deep smugness. It feels very "ego-y". It feels like the author has glommed onto a real concept (denying the ego) but instead used it to get out of the competitive marketplace of social media, and instead take it to their blog where the competition is invisible and lesser. It even basically finishes with "tune in later to keep i…

You're right, there nothing much there but excessive, if muted, self-grandiosement and hypocritical judgement.

Eg, the first sentence:

> As I begin settling into a new flow of my life I find myself finding tremendous sanctuary and peace with myself.

2 * "I", 2 * "myself", 1 * "my life" and a claim that this person has found "tremendous sanctuary and peace".

> I notice this internal tranquility seems to be related to my exodus of social media.

In the second sentence we read that they have peace because of their absence from social media. Great, but then why write a blog post about it all?

It seems like an egoic attempt to try to claim moral high ground to castigate others, while failing to address the crimes others commit in oneself. Do as I say..

Re: Ego Death

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Post by exodust »

norir wrote: post #13

I noticed the train wreck phenomenon she described around 2009 on facebook and immediately quit knowing that I lacked the self control to look away. I post from multiple anonymous hn accounts to test ideas and make a point of not acquiring a particularly high karma before switching to a new account to ensure that I don't get attached to a particular persona that might become correlated with the handle.

> correlated

Why would there be correlation? Do you mean in your own mind, or decided by others?

> test ideas

I don't understand. You post things you don't necessarily believe, to see how people react? This is not a healthy approach for you or the platform. You could instead use one account and simply say you're not sure about this or that idea, or on the fence about particular issues.

Re: Ego Death

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Post by [deleted] »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #27
netsharc wrote: post #9

> We aren’t using social media to drive action. We are using it to farm a false sense of worth. To cast stones at anyone who foolishly stumbles into the latest virtue-trap. Yeah, it feels like most of social media is now shit-flinging and calling the "outside group" stupid so one can feel "At least I'm not a stupid horrible person like that idiot!". I notice on Instagram you can "like" comments but not dislike them,…

Social media simply amplifies what is already common among human beings. One way it seems to do this is by flattening and legitimizing impropriety. Normal societies are "chunky", that is, you have niches and enclaves and varying distance unified in some increasingly "thin" manner. This enables various kinds of relationships to flourish (think of how marriage creates a special space for the couple, and then another sp…

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Re: Ego Death

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Post by d110af5ccf »

unmole wrote: post #60
seszett wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's not the case for me, how comes? Surely you must willingly follow people who post this kind of content, or inflammatory tags? Because I think it's the only way this content can reach you.

> Surely you must willingly follow people who post this kind of content, or inflammatory tags? Because I think it's the only way this content can reach you. Really? Right now, if I go to mastodon.social, I'm redirected to https://mastodon.social/explore and 3 out of the first 4 posts are people fulminating about "red states", "anti-racism" and "Twitter" respectively.

Similarly, if you visit certain instances you will be greeted with the polar opposite of that. The inhabitants of some instances are more political than others. If you actually create an account you will be able to pick and choose whose posts you want to see.

The strictly chronological approach seems to work fairly well as long as you only follow a few people but it doesn't scale very well.

Re: Ego Death

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Post by darkclouds »

ZeroZeroOneZero wrote: post #15
netsharc wrote: post #9

> We aren’t using social media to drive action. We are using it to farm a false sense of worth. To cast stones at anyone who foolishly stumbles into the latest virtue-trap. Yeah, it feels like most of social media is now shit-flinging and calling the "outside group" stupid so one can feel "At least I'm not a stupid horrible person like that idiot!". I notice on Instagram you can "like" comments but not dislike them,…

I really do miss the days where candor was seen as a sign of respect. Now it's just seen as being contrarian or even insulting. All because you "ruined" their virtue-fueled dopamine drip. It's not a genuine interaction, at all. It's a town hall full of shit posters, some of which you went to school with or just happen to be related to. There are literal families divided right now because Becky went full "nobody asked…

> All because you "ruined" their virtue-fueled dopamine drip.

You are ignoring how peoples diet have changed over the decades. Life activities were more directed towards survival, even things like growing vegetables in the back garden or allotment were hobbies to help put the icing on the cake for an otherwise functional world.

Today, with food aplenty and technological gains like mobile phones, the internet, not just social media, is perhaps best seen as a mirror of the human psyche, a mirror of the regional, national and global collective ego's.

This may well be a golden age for the advancement of psychology.

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