“…the world thrives on its faults and strives, by every possible means, to aggravate them, while at the same time masking them like a congenital deformity. The signs are everywhere, though I could not always read them.”

—Thomas Ligotti, Mad Night Of Atonement

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Cake day: November 4th, 2023

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  • People say that a few large instances would be easy pickings for the profit motive, and monetizing.

    There is a lot of handwringing over on mastodon about how people should not be directed to the large instances by default. And that people need to join the small instances to make sure mastodon (or fedi-verse) is not taken over by a few who want to profit off it. They mock those on large instances. They tell people they should join small instances.

    But I have seen many small instances close and leave people in the lurch. I have seen a few people have to move several times.

    I have seen users be abandoned and left with a broken instance that doesn’t work, and the admin nowhere to be seen.

    I agree. But maybe the medium ones aren’t too bad.








  • I am not a eugenicist. Eugenicists think the world or people can be improved. I do not think the world or existence can be improved. I do not think humans can be improved.

    If you really are a “commie” (like your username) then you think the world and humans, or the system can be improved. You have more in common with eugenics than I do.

    Also, I am not a misanthrope. I do not hate human beings. I just think existence is an inescapable horror, that can never be fixed. That human beings and other animals suffer constantly.

    But I am in the minority in my views. I am in an infinitesimally small minority.

    You and the rest of humanity go on without me. I have no interest in the future. Or any of the innumerable schemes for utopia paradise: not christian/religious, not communist, not capitalist, not back to nature, not transhumanist, not satanic, not materialist, not idealist.

    People will do what they always do. I have no interest. We are all aimed at non-existence and there is nothing that can be done about that.

    I go delete all my replies now.