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CharlotteFang literally admitted to being Miya on their own Twitter, the link is right in the page linked by GP.
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I don’t want to be an internet person
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#92This article has been eye opening for me, I too spent a lot of my time on the internet but thankfully never came across the deep end. Made me realize that there's no point in keeping up with memes and stuff and made me think about what actually matters
Eh, this article really touches on nothing new and if I bothered I could find many others like in in the past X00 years based on people that dive head first into things and make it their lives. "I don't want to be 'religious fanatic group' person" , "I don't want to be 'music trend people", ad infinitum. It turns out that people that tend to focus on one subsection of culture are not well rounded and generally boring superficial people. Nothing about this has to do with the 'internet', it's just that HN is eating it up because the word internet is in it and many of us have a strange magical reverence to it.
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#94This is possibly the most cyberpunk thing I've ever read
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>The Internet is a tool, not an endpoint. Not to be pedant about such things, but there may be a reason it's a common scifi trope that people are hooked to machines and live in virtual worlds. It is not out of question that the internet eventually becomes an endpoint in itself.
That's not pedantic at all. I've consciously decided I will favor Real Life over the Internet as much as possible. I really believe the meme that Nothing Happens On The Internet; it's a projection of the Real World and as people we are very susceptible to confusing the map for the territory. From the article: > You can close the computer, but the world will go on without you. Even if culture decides that the Internet…
https://www.quotesoup.com/quotes/movie_tv/tpb_afk_the_pirate...
One of the lawyers: How did you meet Fredrik and Gottfrid?
Peter Sunde: I don't remember, but I assume it was in a chat room on the internet.
One of the lawyers: When was the first time you met IRL?
Peter Sunde: We don't use the expression IRL. We say AFK. But that's another issue. But, I don't remember that either.
Tomas Norstrom - District Court Judge: Got to know each other IRL? What is that?
One of the lawyers: In Real Life.
Peter Sunde: We don't like that expression. We say AFK - Away From Keyboard. We think that the internet is for real.
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#97After reading this, I was reminded of the phrase “That way madness lies.” But I Am Old.™
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#98> You hear it all the time—“the internet is horrible, but.” But I can learn so much. I need it for work. All my friends are online But these are not the Internet's problem, rather edge forums/social media problems, however I recognize that for many people, the internet is just social media at this point. A true internet person should be one who uses it frequently, that would probably be a software developer, yet most…
>Also how do they make money? Do they all just sell NFTs ?
Correct, they sell NFTs of mass-generated cartoon art.
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I found the author's pointed lack of bothering to ask about pronouns when the subject of their investigation posts under different ly gendered pseudonyms; use of the words "normal people" and infiltrating a group only to neg them to be more problematic than anything. The subject of the article might be a real shitheel. But the author doesnt do us any favours by cloaking themselves in being a Voice of the Normal while…
> lack of bothering to ask about pronouns Because no body actually cares, no body will use your made up pronouns. > use of the words "normal people" and infiltrating a group only to neg them to be more problematic than anything. Isn't it obvious that the people in this group are clearly not normal?, they even admit themselves!
How are peoples' names less made up than their pronouns? It seems just as rude to refuse to use someone's preferred name as you would their preferred pronouns.
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#100I actually find that I'm more awkward online/in chats than IRL.
The fact that you have longer to think about your messages and modify them before publishing, that you have to think carefully so as not to multi-text (which seems desperate), that you don't have access to non-verbal cues for context, can't smile etc. all contribute to this.