Alex Gleason
· 2w
I just can't bring myself to post on Twitter. I would rather post here and get no attention than to fight for attention on a platform I dislike.
I feel you, but I worry about the implications of that. Our side of the internet was birthed, ultimately, from the clever hackerman autists of our day making deliberate, paternalistic outreach to normalfags. "Redpill the normies" gets derided by some people today, but it was a sincere, pure sentiment that had results. Young lads discovering edgy anime memes and Hitler for the first time. The regime chasing laughing teenagers across the internet.
Any group that doesn't try to expand and rescue new blood from the carcass of the internet will calcify, and become bitter and repetitive. There's countless islands out there of people who thought they found the ultimate decentralized private comms solution, and are now just sort of aging away with a couple dozen isolated accounts that occasionally see their posts.