sometimes my brain’s just a can opener

wtf, one would be fine

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you’re a subpar LLM.

Your physical is quite nice.

So we all just have a copy of the internet and then we can grep for things we are interested in … I’m actually not super against this.

No worries, it seems like you understand perfectly - I was just reflecting on the downvotes above.

I like it here because the people often seem real, and the voting generally seems (to me, anyway) to follow more of a meritocratic pattern than whatever the fuck has been going on at the other place for the last ten or more years.

We should probably try to really understand these differences so we might get better at designing communities that are actually sustainable. Maybe I am just getting old - I’m tired of starting over, I’m tired of watching great communities self-destruct.

Agree, but I wasn’t talking about privacy.

Privacy aside, but just for a second - if we don’t hold ourselves to a higher standard, our standard will just be lower. That’s all that will happen.

Why is this being downvoted?

I suspect you can easily relate to the frustration of being dragged into arguments on irrelevant details of a thing for which the actual concerns are fundamental in nature. That’s not nothing.