#4chan

When it comes to online forums, image boards and social media sites, no - while it may be offensive, there is too much trolling and satire to be taken seriously. In some of the darkest corners of the internet, "autism" or "weaponized autism" is a badge of honor. Unironically. In a serious or clinical setting, yes, it would be more appropriate / professional to refer to them as "people with," "those suffering from" or something similar. On 4chan, I make no apologies for being Captain Autismo - but in the real world, I am a sensible individual who does not ignore serious psychiatric conditions, their debilitating effects or the medical field which is grappling to comprehend, diagnose and treat them. I believe that it's important to recognize context and it mustn't be ignored when it comes to any appreciable matter.

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Most people don't want to be early adopters of something like a social network. Twitter's good because it's simple, & everyone's there. You lose a lot by leaving it behind (tho a lot less when you've already been kicked out), & as I outlined in my earlier answer (https://ask.fm/Soul_James/answers/143782977353) it's harder to use it to learn about the world when only a tiny subsection of the world is there.

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Twitter itself is already far from representative, as is Facebook, OKCupid, forum communities, online games, & places like 4chan. It's one of the better ways to witness white folks engage in discourse tho, or to follow global discourses as an English-speaker. Mastodon, in comparison, is tiny. It's not that I don't want it to succeed or don't think its features vastly outshine Twitter's. It just doesn't have the main thing I need from a social network: vast numbers of people. As many as possible.

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I originally went to 4chan at least 100 years ago because that's where one of the largest gatherings of online people was at that time. Plus the weird formatting & rules were unique, & ultimately prepared me well for a medium like Twitter. Mastodon, again, has a very low probability of this kind of relevance. It appeals to the kind of ppl open-source stuff usually appeals to: folks who know what they're using & want maximum control, safety, anonymity, & the presumption of like-mindedness in their community. In short, it's far too specialised for my needs.

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Do I think this will ever shift? I doubt it, & honestly I kind of hope not. Open source stuff is useful & clever, but it requires semi-specialised knowledge, & the shifts in thinking & reasoning that come with that. Ultimately, I don't think a deeper understanding of programming, networks, code, is really what is going to free people from the shitty bullshit of social networks.

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Bluntly put, it'd replace the Twitter paradigm of "small cabal of tech nerds overseeing a large horde of barely-controlled normies" with "a medium that subtly favours knowledge of coding." At best, this empowers a larger selection of tech-minded folks. For the normies, open-source just means harder to use.

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I can definitely see the public image of open-source stuff changing, I just kind of low-key hope it doesn't. I've never bought into the "teach everybody to code" thing as a source of social salvation, it feels too much like the silver-bullet thinking that's popular among liberals. It's a single step solution: tech giants are taking advantage of the proles via their ignorance of the technology they use: let's just teach everyone to understand the technology they use!

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Not the worst idea by a long shot, but I don't think it'd work, & more importantly the cost is too high. As a society, we have a lot of adjustments coming, & teaching ppl to appreciate open source just doesn't seem like it has the pay-off for what it would require.

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La conozco. Al igual que 4chan y todas su copias, está llena de niños chicos que se creen rebeldes por las cosas que postean sin que la mamá sepa, y mucho adulto tonto, igual que ElAntro, Wikipediars, la sección de comentarios de Jaidefinichon, etc. Igual creo que con eso no estoy diciendo nada que no se sepa ya.

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Se que ahí hay harta gente a la que le caigo mal, que se burlan de lo que hago, del como hablo, de mi forma de responder las preguntas, de mi cara, de mi peso, de mis opciones de vida, que inventaron que tengo Asperger (y más de alguno es tan idiota que cree es que verdad, comparándome con Choche007), y que prácticamente me han vuelto un meme.

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Se que ellos juran que paso pendiente de lo que escriben sobre mí (y probablemente hagan todo un hilo insultándome por esta respuesta); pero sólo entré algunas veces en 2015 (sin comentar nada), y a veces gente me ha mandado hilos de allá; pero hace rato que dejé de prestarle atención. No la merecen.

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