Lurco de Candacia

In general, designing an identity around some very specific stances (metalhead, techie, gamer, nerd, political ideologies, sports team) or material qualities (sexual orientation, disabilities, location where you were born) works against your well-being in various ways:

• You’re socially and mentally wall-gardening yourself.
• Inbues your whole life with the “us-vs-them” fallacious world that will only cause anxiety, fear and ire.
• Easier to bottle up in internet bubbles, further polarizing and radicalizing yourself.
• Detaches you from other realities. Harder to relate to the varied people you find in real life. Everything outside your closed community feels either scary or stupid.
• It makes you static and unmoving. Harder to actualize yourself.
• It makes you easier to be exploited by marketing and consumerism targeted towards those demographics/hashtags. This was the main goal behind the media development of 70’s identities (metalhead, punkhead, MTV, jpop): selling merchandise, tickets and ads.

A little on a tangent here but…

I’m guessing News and WorldNews will, again and like in Reddit, be actually USANews. Let’s see what the fediverse and instances do bring to that issue.

There’s a stupid question I have (c/NoStupidQuestions?)

What do mods gain from reopening the subs after two days, even if demands are not met? Are they gaining money or something? Perhaps the bigger ones.

Well, I’m not OP but there are a few demographics I’d rather remain in Reddit, far away from this place.

Oh wow, reading it summarized in your three points instantly reminded me of the behaviour of an emotional abuser. The last one specially hits hard, classic bully telling it’s actually the bullied one.

I have no idea if the technology allows for an implementation of that multislice with multiple slices with the same name but different instance, but I hope it does because it sounds interesting. At least from a user perspective.

Well, that demographic is always great for their advertiser acquisition goal